Of my two 'handicaps' being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

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.

All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.)

The future belongs, not to those who have the most, but to those who do the most with what they have.

The hate people hold on to for so long is what keeps them from feeling the pain they're most afraid of. deal with it. grow.

Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

Only two journalists followed the team around.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.