The way Black women have sustained our community is phenomenal. Historically, we did not live within the isolation of a patriarchal world, we were th… - Kathleen Neal Cleaver

In order for women to obtain liberation, the struggles are going to have to be united on the basis of being women, not on the basis of being black women or white women.

I think it is important to place the women who fought oppression as Black Panthers within the longer tradition of freedom fighters like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida Wells-Barnett, who took on an entirely oppressive world and insisted that their race, their gender, and their humanity be respected all at the same time. par.12

I viewed myself as assisting everything that was done, and you must recognize that this is what's key in the liberation of women. That the form of assistance that women give in political movements to men is just as crucial as the leadership that men give to those movements. And this is something that is never recognized and never dealt with. Because women are always relegated to assistance and this is where I became interested in the liberation of women. p.55