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“Nobody's free until everybody's free.”
Source: Speech at the founding of the National Women’s Political Caucus, Washington, D.C., 10 July 1971
Context Speaking at the founding meeting of a new caucus to elect more women, she urged white feminists to make common cause with Black and poor women in Mississippi and beyond.
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