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

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.

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

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

Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

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