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

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.

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.

Men without jobs do not form families.

There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.

Aim for the moon, but on your way don't forget to dance with the stars and shine as bright as the sun.

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

The bad guys have all the fun!

The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.

Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent.

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.