Tremendous Amounts Of Talent Are Lost To

When I Die, I Want To Be Remembered As A Woman Who Lived In The Twentieth Century And Who Dared To Be A Catalyst Of Change. I Don't Want To Be Remembered As The First Black Woman Who Went To Congress. And I Don't Even Want To Be Remembered As The First Woman Who Happened To Be Black To Make A Bid For The Presidency I Want To Be Remembered As A Woman Who Fought For Change In The Twentieth Century. That's What I Want.

Of My Two `handicaps,' Being Female Put More Obstacles In My Path Than Being Black.

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?

America Has The Laws And The Material Resources It Takes To Insure Justice For All Its People. What It Lacks Is The Heart, The Humanity.

My Greatest Political Asset, Which Professional Politicians Fear, Is My Mouth, Out Of Which Come All Kinds Of Things One Shouldn't Always Discuss For Reasons Of Political Expediency.