• I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.
• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
• When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom profit that loses.
• To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
• Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers -- this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford?
• Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports this view.
• 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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