advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.