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

Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.

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

The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.

The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.

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?

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.