The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

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.

When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.