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“The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.”

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Book:Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker
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“... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, 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.”

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Author:Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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“I was very proud and grateful to be the first African-American woman in the position. I thought it said a lot about our country that we had back-to-back African-American Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and then me. I also thought it said a lot about President Bush that he didn't see limits on the highest ranking diplomat in terms of color. It's a hard job, but really the best one in government.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice
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“There still aren't enough[ roles for women of color]. And I'd say that's the case, not only for African-American women, but for all women in the Hollywood game. It's just slim pickings, and a very challenging time for us. I think that's why more of us need to work our way behind the camera in order to create roles that really illuminate who women are. We still have room for growth in that area, without a doubt.”

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Author:Jada Pinkett Smith
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“I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'”

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Author:Barbara Jordan
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“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”

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Author:June Jordan
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“Senator Sessions has opposed protections for LGBT individuals. He's spoken out against Freedom Corps' marriage equality decision. He opposed the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He opposed the nomination of Loretta Lynch, the nation's first African-American woman to serve as attorney general. These things worry me.”

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Author:Patrick Leahy
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“All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew, and all the stories I've read - everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody's racism or sexism or ageism.”

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Author:Maya Angelou
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“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

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Author:Coretta Scott King
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“If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

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Author:Toni Morrison
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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

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Book:An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
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“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

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Book:Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation
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“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”

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Author:Wilma Rudolph
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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”

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Book:An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard
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“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey
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“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey
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“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey
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“What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.”

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Book:Negro Makers of History
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“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.”

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Book:Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
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“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

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Author:Lou Holtz
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“In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

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Book:Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou
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“Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”

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Author:Carol Moseley Braun
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“You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”

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Author:Marian Wright Edelman
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“Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”

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Author:Mae Jemison
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“If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.”

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Author:Mary McLeod Bethune
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“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.”

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Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
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