Patricia Hill Collins Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Patricia Hill Collins:
Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.
~Patricia Hill Collins
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
~Patricia Hill Collins
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
~Patricia Hill Collins
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Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.
~Patricia Hill Collins
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
~Patricia Hill Collins
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Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
~Patricia Hill Collins
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
~Patricia Hill Collins
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