Women should be obscene and not heard.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

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.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

As we’ve seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities – and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Women don’t try to use me.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.