With steady eye on the real issue, let us reinaugurate the good old "central ideas" of the Republic. We can do it. The human heart... is with us--God is with us. We shall again be able not to declare, that "all States as States, are equal," nor yet that "all citizens as citizens are equal," but to renew the broader, better declaration, including both these and much more, that "all men are created equal."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Resolved, There can never be a true peace in this Republic until the civil and political rights of all citizens of African descent... and all women are practically established. Resolved, that the women of the Revolution were not wanting in heroism and self-sacrifice, and we, their daughters, are ready, in this War, to pledge our time, our means, our talents, and our lives, if need be, to secure the final and complete consecration of America to freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The confirmation of Clarence Thomas, one of the most conservative voices to be added to the [Supreme] Court in recent memory, carr...ies a sobering message for the African- American community.... As he begins to make his mark upon the lives of African Americans, we must acknowledge that his successful nomination is due in no small measure to the support he received from black Americans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writer...s, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African America...n. It wouldn't occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that's all!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More than the changing of institutions we need the development of a national conscience, and the upbuilding of national character.... Men may boast of the aristocracy of blood, may glory in the aristocracy of talent, and be proud of the aristocracy of wealth, but there is one aristocracy which must ever outrank them all, and that is the aristocracy of character; and it is the women of a country who help to mold its character, and to influence if not determine its destiny; and in the political future of our nation woman will not have done what she could if she does not endeavor to have our republic stand foremost among the nations of the earth, wearing sobriety as a crown and righteousness as a garment and a girdle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On fields all drenched with blood he made his record in war, abstained from lawless violence when left on the plantation, and rece...ived his freedom in peace with moderation. But he holds in this Republic the position of an alien race among a people impatient of a rival. And in the eyes of some it seems that no valor redeems him, no social advancement nor individual development wipes off the ban which clings to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that wome...n share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the g...reatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I have ... been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as A...frican Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »