We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.

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

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

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.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.