Lorde, Movements for liberation must learn from earlier struggles without repeating their exclusions, particularly the marginalization of women and differences within oppressed communities., Deloria, Black Power should be understood in relation to other oppressed peoples' struggles for self-determination, including Native American demands for sovereignty., Alexander, The criminal justice system perpetuates a racial caste system through mass incarceration and the legal discrimination that follows criminal convictions., Taylor, Celebrating individual Black success can obscure the structural inequalities that leave many others disadvantaged, making racial progress appear more complete than it is., Carmichael, Racism is institutional rather than merely a matter of individual prejudice, and genuine liberation requires Black communities to build independent political power., Malcolm X, Black Americans should exercise political power independently, using the vote strategically and recognizing that freedom may require more forceful means if political avenues fail., Fitzhugh, Free labor and capitalist competition can be more exploitative than slavery, since enslaved workers supposedly receive lifelong care while wage laborers are abandoned when no longer useful., Hammond, Every society depends on a class of laborers who perform its most difficult work, forming the foundation on which the leisure and achievements of other classes rest., Calhoun, Slavery is not merely a necessary evil but a positive good, because a hierarchical society provides stability and protection that a society based on free labor cannot., Douglass, A nation celebrating liberty and independence while maintaining slavery exposes the profound hypocrisy of its own founding ideals., Brownson, Women's social and domestic responsibilities provide a reason to oppose extending political equality and suffrage to them., Stanton, Women's political exclusion should be challenged through a declaration modeled on the nation's founding document, asserting equality and identifying grievances., Woodhull, The Constitution already protects women's equal political rights, including suffrage, even without a new constitutional amendment., Grimke, Women's moral equality follows from their common humanity, and the traditional distinction between men's and women's proper spheres is unjustified.

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