Anita Hill Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.”

“Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.”

“I see myself as an educator.”

“I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.”

“Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.”

“What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.”

“I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant.”

“If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.”

“The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.”

“When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.”