A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

If de fust woman God ever made was strong enough to turn de world upside down all alone, dese women togedder (and she glanced her eye over the platform) ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now dey is asking to do it, de men better let 'em.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it

I will be O.K. without football. I want to fight for the people who won't be O.K.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.