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.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.

The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.

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

I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.