It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

You can't win what you don't fight for.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Relationship and relations, two different ends, very difficult to meet their needs.

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.

When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do.

How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.

A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.