I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

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

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

The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.