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

- Eleanor Holmes Norton

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 wom…

- Eleanor Holmes Norton

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 …

- Eleanor Holmes Norton

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

- Eleanor Holmes Norton

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever don…

- Eleanor Holmes Norton

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

- Eleanor Holmes Norton

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 mi…

- Eleanor Holmes Norton

Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday …

- Eleanor Holmes Norton

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…

- Eleanor Holmes Norton