Mary Frances Berry Quotes

"Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities."
- Mary Frances Berry
(Related: Civil rights, Open, Will, Windows)

"If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing."
- Mary Frances Berry

"The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader."
- Mary Frances Berry
(Related: Leader, African, American, Crowds, Joy, Support)

"The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done."
- Mary Frances Berry
(Related: Time, People, Saying)

"When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise."
- Mary Frances Berry
(Related: Cause, Compromise, Justice)