I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

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

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.

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

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.

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.