I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
We Americans have the chance to become someday a nation in which all radical stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole will be greater than all its parts and greater than any society the world has seen before. It can still happen.
The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
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.
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
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.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories