... the struggle against sexism demands the destruction of the American state, and ... the immediate personal nature of sexism req...uires struggle against men who enforce that oppression as well as its institutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far- reaching as the prejudice against women. F...or stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I came along at a time when there was a demand to give men greater visibility and opportunity. In white society they were saying, ..."Women can't do it." In black society, they were saying, "Women do too much." It's a diabolical situation.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 »
The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and... manifested very much in the same way. The Negro's skin and the woman's sex are both prima facie evidence that they were intended to be in subjection to the white Saxon man. The few social privileges which the man gives the woman, he makes up to the Negro in civil rights. The woman may sit at the same table and eat with the white man; the free Negro may hold property and vote. The woman may sit in the same pew with the white man in church; the free Negro may enter the pulpit and preach. Now, with the black man's right to suffrage, the right unquestioned, even by Paul, to minister at the altar, it is evident that the prejudice against sex is more deeply rooted and unreasonably maintained than that against color ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak a...nd defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »