“Women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually-women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority. A mark of their victimization is that they accept their lot in life without visible question, without organized protest, without collective anger or rage.”

— Bell Hooks

p. 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=uvIQbop4cdsC&pg=PA1. <br class="br">(1984), Chapter 1: Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory

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