Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial justice.