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“‘Ain’t I a woman?’ With a voice like ‘rolling thunder’, [Sojourner Truth] said, ‘Look at me! Look at my arm,’ and tolled up her sleeve to reveal the ‘tremendous muscular power’ of her arm.”

“Until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.”

“The root of oppression was described as a ‘tangle of pathology’ created by the absence of male authority among Black people! The controversial finale of the [1965] Moynihan Report was a call to introduce male authority (meaning male supremacy of course!) into the Black family and the community at large.”