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The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Women are completely disadvantaged - despite what men will say. It is not a fair fight.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

Finally, let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue.

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.