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.

Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

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

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

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

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?

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