Occupation: Political Activist Birth: January 26, 1944
The early feminist argument that violence against women is not inherently a private matter, but has been privatized by the sexist structures of the s….
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time..
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women..
Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of c….
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are….
I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in w….
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice..
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings..
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education..
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to….
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime..
We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community..
And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as….
The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relativ….
Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary,….
We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on bl….
No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be c….
Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people ….
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing..
Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men, white women, and ….
I don't think it's necessary to feel guilty. Because I know that I'm still doing the work that is going to help more sisters and brothers to challeng….