July 10, 1971 — Founding of the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC), Washington, DC

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen, or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.

Source: Barefoot Frontrunners: Sex, Women, and Power, by Peggy Reskin (Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, 2017), p. 90.