Born on December 3rd

"The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented."

"We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing."

"All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business."

"Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business."

"There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back."

"Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace."

"We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them."

"Well, I happen to believe all business is female business."

"There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to."

"Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now."

"This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it."

"During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service."

"I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something."

"I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it."

"Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far."

"Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace."

"I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace."

"Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace."

"When you have this many losses, you don't have a following."

"It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote."

"I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing."

"We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party."

"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election."

"In the field of resilience & focus, we are not defined by the weight of our struggles, but by the strength we find when we rise."

"Like a lighthouse in the storm, your inner resolve must remain steady and bright. As a historical figure, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"The hardest trials do not consume the gold; they refine the spirit and clear the path ahead."

"In the field of wisdom & life, the path to true wisdom begins when we question the certainties we have carried since childhood."

"Wisdom is the quiet space we cultivate between our thoughts, where clarity finally speaks. As a philosopher & thinker, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"We seek truth not to change the world around us, but to clarify the lens through which we view it."

"To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic."