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Black Women Have Had To Develop A Larger Vision Of Our Society Than Perhaps Any Other Group. They Have Had To Understand White Men, White Women, And Black Men. And They Have Had To Understand Themselves. When Black Women Win Victories, It Is A Boost For Virtually Every Segment Of Society.

A Fair Trial Would Have Been No Trial At All.

Because It Would Be Too Agonizing To Cope With The Possibility That Anyone, Including Our­ Selves, Could Become A Prisoner, We Tend To Think Of The Prison As Disconnected From Our Own Lives. This Is Even True For Some Of Us, Women As Well As Men, Who Have Already Experienced Imprisonment.

My Name Became Known Because I Was, One Might Say Accidentally The Target Of State Repression And Because So Many People Throughout The Country And Other Parts Of The World Organized Around The Demand For My Freedom.

Racism Cannot Be Separated From Capitalism.