The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself...
I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent creative personality for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Of my two 'handicaps' being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.
It is not female egotism to say that the future of mankind may very well be ours to determine. It is a fact.
Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these...
I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary...