(12 quotes found)
“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”
Bernice Johnson Reagon
“There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.”
“If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition”
“Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.”
“At first we thought we were doing it to help others. But we found out we were doing it for ourselves.”
Bernice Johnson
“They named her Erika. That was hard, to say Erika.”
“The answer I've never had is why they were killed. There was no reason for them to be killed.”
“Ann was killed in 1985 -- it was 1987 before we could do anything other than just existing.”
“The awful part of how they died is always a part of our thinking. We have a lot of good memories of Ann and the children... . But it's always there in the background. It comes to your mind.”
“I think about that a lot. How sweet she was -- she was very dear.”
