1. “No one will do for you what you need to do yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.”
2. “My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.”
3. “We have to realize we are building a movement.”
4. “If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don’t get much work done.”
5. “I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished and powerful to the little known and the poor.”
6. “If times aren’t ripe, you have to ripen the times.”
7. We are not problem people, wwe are people with problems”.”
8. ” I want to be remembered as one who tried.”
9. “We’ve go to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.”
10. “There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.”
11. “Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.”
12. “A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can’t take the same things for granted.”
13. “We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.”
14. “When you’re a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.”
15. “Progress come from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit.”
