Backlash Quote by Eve Ensler

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

— Bill Ayers

“The feminist challenge was sweeping: it embraced education and occupation, together with legal, political, and social status. It even dared broach the subject of…

— Cynthia Russett

“Blacks complained that most leaders were white, which was true. Feminists complained that most all were men, which was also true. Soon black women…

— Mark Lilla

“Above all else, our politics initially sprang from the shared belief that Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not…

— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

In 2016, the conversation of the black experience is so broad, and it's very raw. I mean, c'mon, we have a black president. That's…

— Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were…

— Gloria Steinem

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

— Robin DiAngelo

I asked, "What do you think the most important advancement was for women in recent years?" And the majority, the item that polled the…

— Carolyn Maloney

My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to…

— Rosalynn Carter

“Feminist efforts to grant women social equality with men of their class neatly coincided with white supremacist capitalist patriarchal fears that white power would…

— bell hooks

The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the…

— Ishmael Reed

I think the way the country has changed in part because of the presidency of Barack Obama, I think in part because of what…

— Killer Mike