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

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

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

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

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

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