"Most Americans who made it past the fourth……" — Louis Menand

"Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not many Americans have even heard of Alice Paul, Howard W. Smith, and Martha Griffiths. But they played almost as big a role in the history of women’s rights as Marshall and King played in the history of civil rights for African-Americans. They gave women the handle to the door to economic opportunity, and nearly all the gains women have made in that sphere since the nineteen-sixties were made because of what they did."

Louis Menand

8 Quotes by Louis Menand

Louis Menand has 8 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

See all 8 quotes by Louis Menand »

More African Quotes

This quote is filed under African Quotes, one of 934 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

See all 934 African Quotes »