Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

...man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey...

We are all born with a muscle for courage, but our education has wasted it away.

I do not know where I am going or what I will do when I get there. I know only that to put one foot in front of the other, moves me on, away from you to a place, where I do not want to be.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

The reputation of those countries which cater to the foreign policy interests of other states at the expense of their own national interests will go down regardless of how they explain their actions.