Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.
An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.
Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.
Women are raped and coerced into sex.
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.
We've undergone a very heavy level of scrutiny by review boards because of Genesis and because of the Columbia accident. . . . It was a cultural shift in NASA, that you're now required to understand all the risks.
For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.
We don't have rights until we claim them.