The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.