My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It's a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!

We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.

Every minute a chance to change the world.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.

I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

It is through our imperfections that our true beauty shines through.

You're not really in control, not with this falling-for-people stuff. You don't plan who you're going to fall in love with. It's all random - chance accidents of time and place.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.

This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it.

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.