In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

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

I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. 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 think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.