"For the first time in the history of this nation a political party has chosen a Negro woman for the second highest of…"

"I am a Negro woman. My people came before the Mayflower."

"I am more concerned with what is happening to my people in my country than war. We have lived through two wars and se…"

"For forty years I have been a working editor and publisher of the oldest Negro newspaper in the West. During those fo…"

"could I retire when I saw that slavery had been abolished but not destroyed; that democracy had been won in World War…"

"To retire meant to leave this world to these people who carried oppression to Africa, to Asia, who made profits from …"

"This is what we fight against. We fight to live. We want the $65 billion that goes for death to go to build a new lif…"

"We fight that all people shall live. We fight to send our money to end colonialism for the colored peoples of the wor…"

"Can you conceive of the party of Taft and Eisenhower and MacArthur and McArthy and the big corporations calling a Neg…"

"I am proud that I am the choice of the leaders of my own people and leaders of all those who understand how deeply th…"