Admiration Quote by Patricia Hill Collins

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

— Frances M. Beal

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

— Angelina Grimke

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the…

— Lydia M. Child

“What most upset her, was the widespread use of slave labor. ...It is true Republicanism that drives the slaves half fed, and destitute of…

— Lynne Withey

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless…

— Susan Griffin

“Despite her light skin, despite the obviousness that more of her ancestors had owned slaves than had been them, how could she lose? We're…

— Tiphanie Yanique

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

— Margaret Fuller

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

— Kirsten Powers

“Waking and sleeping she had demanded to know where she belonged in a white man's world, and how and where she should invest her…

— John Le Carre

“The vitality associated with blackness might cancel out the vulnerability associated with femininity in the search for a field hand, while a "bright disposition"…

— Walter Johnson

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to…

— Sarah Moore Grimke