30 Quotes by Eleanor Holmes Norton

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Men without jobs do not form families.

The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.

Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.