Frances M. Beal

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To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns.
- Frances M. Beal
Collection: Mean
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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
Collection: America
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We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.
- Frances M. Beal
Collection: Teacher
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The advertising media in this country continuously informs the American male of his need for indispensable signs of his virility.
- Frances M. Beal
Collection: Country