Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.
Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.
I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That's how I'd like to be remembered.