Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for 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.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

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

The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.