Class Quote by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I think that it is too common for white feminists to say, 'We want some diversity. Come join our movement about gender, but we…

— Rachel Dolezal

To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No…

— Irena Klepfisz

White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.

— Kirsten Powers

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly…

— Betty Buckley

“If feminism can understand the patriarchy, it's important to question why so many feminists struggle to understand whiteness as a political structure in the…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a…

— Gail Collins

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and…

— Bell Hooks

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

— Bell Hooks

All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women . . . many of…

— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

It's all too common that when we talk about diversity and inclusion, and gender equity in the workplace, it translates to just white women.

— Meena Harris

“Working with students and families from diverse class backgrounds, I am constantly amazed at how difficult it is to cross boundaries in this white…

— Bell Hooks