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.

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

I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

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.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.