Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture. — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination... Affirmative action, by all statistical measures, has been the central ingredient to the… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
We understand that in an open and democratic and free society, you cannot make yourself impenetrable, especially when there are more guns than there… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
As commissioner, I will attempt to see that no man is judged by the irrational criteria of race, religion, or national origin. And I… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits. — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor economy, have an incentive to take on much… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
I am proud to be an American, proud to represent 600,000 Americans, and proud to be in the only party pledged to make the… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development. — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
