There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.

I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

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

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

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