There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.

If I take a finger and touch you, you won’t even know you’ve been tapped. If I take two fingers, you will know that something touched you. But if I bring all of those fingers together in a fist, I can give you a terrible blow!

You never teach a subject, you always teach a child. You teach children in a way that they will learn, and then things will fall in place for them.

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.

I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections don’t happen for years. But when they do, I marvel. As in a shimmering kaleidoscope, familiar patterns keep unfolding.

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit.

Without Community Service we wouldnot have a strong quality of Life.

We’ve got 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.

We had people of all backgrounds coming together – all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It’s important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It’s the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.