There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

It is necessary to approach the study of the issue from all sides to find as much information as possible on this issue

Consciousness is the only home of which we know.

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, “Get back to who you were meant to be.”

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.