A man without a vote is man without protection.

If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote.

One man with courage is a majority.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

Feminism… I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‚Free to be You and Me.‘

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

I will not be triumphed over.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

You are victors, not victims!

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.