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

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.

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

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

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.