"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."
— Kathleen Cleaver

January 1, 1970

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But that relationship, I'm positive, will have to be on a coalition basis and not on an integrated basis. Because the problems of black women and the problems of white women are so completely diverse they cannot possibly be solved in the same type of organization nor met by the same type of activity. p.56