“Geraldine Ferraro's nomination opens a new era of feminist politics, for the first time placing the genuinely radical perspectives of the feminist movement in a far broader national arena”
“Unity cannot be an end in itself. The emphasis on it in the past two decades has been a sign of the intellectual and moral chaos in which black America finds itself. Only the weak insist on being agreed with.”
“Only by creating loyalties to something more universal than our immediate tribe — to ideas and values like community, tolerance, pluralism, and equality — can we begin the process of reciprocity and reconciliation between blacks and Jews.”