"I have arrived at a point where I no longer wish to be patient with sexism, racism, and injustices against the dignity that rightly belongs to beings made in the image of God. These labels are loosing their force, but the realities they point to, the burden and the evil we are naming, continue. Those who live under them feel their iron weight. I may not be classified materially poor in my own community, but as long as I am a woman and black and refuse to accept any condition or attitude toward me that makes me feel less than accepted and included, I stand with all who are trampled upon and with all who want to struggle to see the end of inhumanity in the human community."
Mercy Amba Oduyoye
in "The Struggle about Women's Theological Education" in Feminist Theology from the Third World: A Reader, ed. Ursula King, 1994.
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