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For generations, Black women have been at the very center of social change. Our fingerprints can be found on every movement from abolition, to suffrage, to civil rights to the modern-day fight for Black lives.
“For generations, Black women have been at the very center of social change. Our fingerprints can be found on every movement from abolition, to suffrage, to civil rights to the modern-day fight for Black lives.”
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“For generations, Black women have been at the very center of social change. Our fingerprints can be found on every movement from abolition, to suffrage, to civil rights to the modern-day fight for Black lives.”
“The Congressional Gold Medal stands for excellency and celebrates the achievements of those who courageously confronted our nation's imperfections and forced it to change for the better.”
“We cannot enjoy reproductive freedom, economic inclusion or climate justice without first securing and exercising our fundamental right to vote.”
“My time at Jackson State University helped shape how I show up in the world, which is why I am making a promise to the next generation to keep investing in our nation's HBCUs.”
“I have the honor of working alongside over 325,000 caregivers of SEIU Local 2015. Every day I am amazed by their tenacious spirit despite the many challenges they face on a daily basis.”
“A jolt is necessary. Europe must reaffirm it values of freedom, solidarity, peace. The EU must be understood and controlled by its citizens. I will do everything to secure profound change rather than decline.”
“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
“I'm always like: 'Ahh I wish I could change this bit or that bit,' always wanting to make small corrections and adjustments.”
“I've been on the opposite side of decisions before when the crowd would be booing and saying that I lost. I've lived with it. Judging in boxing has been same since the beginning, and it isn't gonna change.”
“Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It's so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.”
“Fatigue is understandable when every step toward progress seems to be met with swift backlash. But in my days as a union president, I saw women - mostly women of color - who worked all day, sometimes at more than one job, still fighting for the things that were important to them.”
“But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.”