Women should be obscene and not heard.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King’s success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

I didn’t want to set up a women’s studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it’s male-dominated.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

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!

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

My fat never made me less money.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

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.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

I was a proponent of the ERA.