You can't win what you don't fight for.

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change.

Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.