I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one h...undred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a fre...e country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The origin of storms is not in clouds, our lightning strikes when the earth rises,... spillways free authentic power: dead John Brown's body walking from a tunnel to break the armored and concluded mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine... than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »