Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers - this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford?

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.

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

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

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

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.