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People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.
I try to act out of faith.
I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry... →
I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found... →
We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value... →
I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really... →
I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I... →
It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the '60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings beneath the political and the... →
We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will... →
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