"It is impossible to struggle for civil..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.”

“I like to know what's happening.”

“We are only as blind as we want to be.”

“If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.”

“Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are all those which relate to security and protection.”

“Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.”

“A piece of freedom is no longer enough for human beings...unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible--we have it all, or we are not free.”

“Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.”

“The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".”