I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

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

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

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

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

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.

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.