It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

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

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.