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The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
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Women
Rights
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
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Class
Middle class
Population
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
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Legal
Difference
Freedom
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
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Fact
Racism
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
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Class
Middle class
Now
Poor
Population
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
Constance Baker Motley
Parents
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
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Class
Racism
Sexism
Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
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Race
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
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Deep
Influence
Liberal
May
Population
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
Constance Baker Motley
Women
Revolution
Will