“If one aims to judge political movements, their deeds are far more important than their speeches, which are often masking rather than revealing.”

“As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more important than being a woman; whether feminist struggle to end sexist oppression is more important than the struggle to racism or vice versa. All such questions are rooted in competitive either/or thinking, the belief that the self is formed in opposition to an other. … Most people are socialized to think in terms of opposition rather than compatibility. Rather than seeing anti-racist work as totally compatible with working to end sexist oppression, they often see them as two movements competing for first place.”

“Far more important than a good remuneration is the pride of serving one's neighbor.”

“Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.”

“The inquiry into the proper aims and limits of State agency must be of the highest importance—nay, that it is perhaps more vitally momentous than any other political question.”

“The expression one wears on one's face is far more important than the clothes one wears on one's back.”

“It is, as a rule, far more important how men pursue their occupation than what the occupation is which they select.”

“With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.”

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”

“One can best be judged by the life they live rather than the words they speak.”