8 quotes
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Unbought and Unbossed (1970)
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Unbought and Unbossed (1970)
One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine.
Unbought and Unbossed (1970)
The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.
Unbought and Unbossed (1970)
Discrimination against women in politics is particularly unjust, because no political organization I have seen could function without women.
Unbought and Unbossed (1970)
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. Even when the problems it ignores build up to crises and erupt in strikes, riots, and demonstrations, it has not moved. Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
Unbought and Unbossed (1970)
Some other black political leaders scolded me. I told them that no one has a right to call himself a leader unless he dares to lead.
Unbought and Unbossed (1970)
I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.
Unbought and Unbossed (1970)