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

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

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

Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers - this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford?

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

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.

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.