Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes

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On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in foregoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family life.

Eleanor Holmes Norton
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Eleanor Holmes Norton
The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

Eleanor Holmes Norton
Unidentified Congressman: Will the gentleman yield?
Norton: I will not yield, sir! The District of Columbia has spent two hundred and six years yielding!

Eleanor Holmes Norton
One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

Eleanor Holmes Norton
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Holmes Norton
Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

Eleanor Holmes Norton
In Congress, it's really interesting to hear these folks who don't want to do anything about it now criticize you for only wanting to talk about it... Our answer has to be, you can't possibly do anything about race if you don't talk about it.

Eleanor Holmes Norton