Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.