If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.

We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable. There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.

If we create a framework for decision-making that is biased toward life, supportive of families, and fair to people of all circumstances, our policies, legislation, and commercial decisions will be vastly different.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

Mercy is Truth clothed; judgment is Truth naked.