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.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

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

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.

I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.