“...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on stepsand shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].”
—Lorraine Hansberry (19301965)
“Its only too easy to idealise a mothers job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its times of being the last thing anyone would choose to do. Well, why shouldnt the care of babies and children be thought of that way too?”
—D.W. Winnicott (20th century)
“The children wont leave without me; I wont leave without the King; and the King will never leave.”
—Elizabeth (b. 1900)