I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.

I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

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

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

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.