A Quote by Stokely Carmichael

The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

Stokely Carmichael

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Only Position Prone Sncc Women

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Stokely Carmichael
American - Activist
June 29, 1941 - November 15, 1998

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Mignon McLaughlin

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

Stokely Carmichael

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Dawn Foster

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Ella Baker

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Katie Walsh

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Vonette Bright

Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

Sun Myung Moon

Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.

Helen Fisher

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

Mo Ibrahim

I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

Siri Hustvedt

Women of vanquished races are usually very prone to wed with the men who have slaughtered their kindred in battle.

Arthur Desmond

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. And the way African men treat African women is total unacceptable.

Mo Ibrahim

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied.