"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
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"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."
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"Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN."
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"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
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"In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism."
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"I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo."
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"Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting."
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"Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution."
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"The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so."
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"I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men."
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"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."
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"Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased."
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"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
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"I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do."
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"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'"
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"I am and always will be a catalyst for change."
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"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
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"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."
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"We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state."
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"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts."
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