It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.

It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation, a new democratic nation composed of united capital and labor.

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists

The future is an infinite succession of presents.