I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

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

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

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

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

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

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

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

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

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

What am I supposed to call you?""Your Royal Husbandness. It's required by law, I'm afraid.

The truth of the world is that in every group you will find some good and some bad people - which is why i am keenly aware that no group is ALL bad, just as no group is ALL good.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks.

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.

I wasn't in a position to defend myself. Sometimes it's a brutal profession. The first thing I thought of at the time was revenge. I have a more levelheaded take on the issue today.

In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.