Mary Frances Berry

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

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.

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

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first 'adult novel,' Lucy Maud Montgomery's 'The Blue Castle.'

I'm so hands-on, from the color of my tour bus to what I eat for dinner at 5 or the way the lights are hung.