Mary Jackson

I plan on being an engineer at NASA, but I can't do that without taking them classes at that all-white high school, and I can't change the color of my skin, so I have no choice, but to be the first, which I can't do without you, sir. Your honor, out of all the cases you gon hear today, which one is gon matter hundred years from now? Which one is gon make you the first?

Oh, I'll tell you where to begin: Three Negro women chasing a white police officer down a highway in Hampton, Virginia in 1961. Ladies, that there is a God-ordained miracle!

Every time we get a chance to get ahead they move the finish line. Every time.

Mr. Zielinski, I'm a negro woman. I'm not gonna entertain the impossible.

I wouldn't have to. I'd already be one.

We go from being our father's daughters, to our husband's wives to our babies' mothers...

She's not married. She's a widow, with three beautiful little girls. So well behaved. Angels on earth is what we like to call them. Dorothy, slice of pie?