Given the way the system was, what could I do as I one person, other than devote my life to fighting to make it different? If I had allowed myself to…

- Shirley Sherrod

I wish that somehow, some way we could learn to live together in this country.

- Shirley Sherrod

When I look in the mirror I see someone who's aging now, and someone who kept a commitment made many, many years ago, and who today is trying to be a…

- Shirley Sherrod

I want the world to know that Shirley Sherrod is someone who is committed to helping others. I love people, and I love doing things that make a diffe…

- Shirley Sherrod

I grew up on a farm and, prior to my father's murder, I wanted to get away from the farm, and away from South Georgia where the Jim Crow laws absolut…

- Shirley Sherrod

You can't give up. Sometimes you get knocked down, but you have to get back up, fighting. You have to think about the others who come behind you as w…

- Shirley Sherrod

If you're in government service for the money, then you'll do what you have to do to survive. But if you're in it to do the right thing, then it migh…

- Shirley Sherrod

I am just a pawn. I was just here. They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where blac…

- Shirley Sherrod

I love helping other people. When I made a commitment to stay in the South, to work for change, it meant devoting my life to working for and helping …

- Shirley Sherrod