Logo
Quote by Cissy Farenthold
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and wom

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. – Cissy Farenthold

Other quotes by Cissy Farenthold
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Black History
category

There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution. – Frederick Douglass

Category:
Black History

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. – Billie Holiday

Category:
Black History

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. – Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, 1992

Category:
Black History

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

Category:
Black History

Random Quotes

Whether youve seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise. – Martha Beck

Category:
Hope

There are a handful of people whom money wont spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. – Mignon McLaughlin

Category:
Money

Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. – Attributed to both Joe Adcock and Curt Simmons

Category:
Baseball

Ive been to war, and its not easy to kill. Its bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. – Oliver Stone

Category:
Politics