As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

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

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.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.