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

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

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.

I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

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.

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