Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of wha…

- Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the do…

- Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.

- Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander