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.

We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

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

As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

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