Mary Frances Berry Quotes

#1. We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.

Mary Frances Berry

#2. When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Mary Frances Berry

#3. Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

Mary Frances Berry

#4. Advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

Mary Frances Berry

#5. Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.

Mary Frances Berry

#6. 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

#7. When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

Mary Frances Berry

#8. 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

#9. If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

Mary Frances Berry

#10. 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

#11. Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

Mary Frances Berry