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

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

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

Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'