Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes

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

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  Eleanor Holmes Norton
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  • Done
  • America