"Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."

"I was not a person who was born with any great talent. I worked very hard."

"If you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself."

"You're saying, no, state marriage [is] the full marriage, and then this sort of skim milk marriage."

"I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. And to help repair tears in her society, to make things a little better throug…"