We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.