Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

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

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.

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.

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?