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.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

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

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

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

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.