I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.