Don't List To Those Who Say You

Some Fine Men Are In Congress, Too Few, Trying To Do A Responsible Job. But They Are Surrounded And Almost Neutralized By A Greater Number Whose Instinct Is To Make A Deal Before They Make A Decision.

To Label Family Planning And Legal Abortion Programs "genocide" Is Male Rhetoric, For Male Ears.

At Present, Our Country Needs Women's Idealism And Determination, Perhaps More In Politics Than Anywhere Else.

I Was The First American Citizen To Be Elected To Congress In Spite Of The Double Drawbacks Of Being Female And Having Skin Darkened By Melanin. When You Put It That Way, It Sounds Like A Foolish Reason For Fame. In A Just And Free Society It Would Be Foolish. That I Am A National Figure Because I Was The First Person In 192 Years To Be At Once A Congressman, Black And A Woman Proves, I Think, That Our Society Is Not Yet Either Just Or Free.

When The Kerner Commission Told White America What Black America Has Always Known, That Prejudice And Hatred Built The Nation’s Slums, Maintains Them And Profits By Them, White America Could Not Believe It. But It Is True. Unless We Start To Fight And Defeat The Enemies In Our Own Country, Poverty And Racism, And Make Our Talk Of Equality And Opportunity Ring True, We Are Exposed In The Eyes Of The World As Hypocrites When We Talk About Making People Free - (chapter 9).