Black Women

Famous quotes containing the words black women, black and/or women:

    “... the black girls didn’t get these pills because their black ministers were up on the pulpit saying that birth control pills were black genocide. What I’m saying is that black men have exploited black women.... They didn’t want them to have any choice about their reproductive health. And if you can’t control your reproduction, you can’t control your life.”
    —Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)

    “a long shot at long odds, a black mare
    By Hatred out of Envy by Despair.”
    —James Vincent Cunningham (1911–1985)

    “I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.””
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)