They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people’s revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.

I never lost a passenger.

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the ’60s.

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.

Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to You and You’ve got to see me through.

By the end, everybody had a label – pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary… If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

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.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

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

That’s right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I’m glad they did.

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

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.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn’t observe the police without guns, we took our guns with...

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

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

The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren’t sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their...

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Most of us see Justice O’Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Don’t trust anyone over thirty.

Let me go to Clinton’s new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they’re doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

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

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or...

The terms of that settlement were never disclosed – not even to me. I was asked if I wanted to know and having had enough of lawsuits I declined.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women’s and children’s empowerment...

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn’t afford to be.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.