I Love America Not For

I Was The First American Citizen To Be Elected To Congress In Spite Of The Double Drawbacks Of Being Female And Having Skin Darkened By Melanin. When You Put It That Way, It Sounds Like A Foolish Reason For Fame. In A Just And Free Society It Would Be Foolish. That I Am A National Figure Because I Was The First Person In 192 Years To Be At Once A Congressman, Black And A Woman Proves, I Think, That Our Society Is Not Yet Either Just Or Free.

I Was Well On The Way To Forming My Present Attitude Toward Politics As It Is Practiced In The United States; It Is A Beautiful Fraud That Has Been Imposed On The People For Years, Whose Practitioners Exchange Gelded Promises For The Most Valuable Thing Their Victims Own: Their Votes. And Who Benefits The Most? The Lawyers.

When Morality Comes Up Against Profit, It Is Seldom That Profit Loses.

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.

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.