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).

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

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

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

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

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

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.