Women: Occupy the Left

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4. who can forget Stokely Carmichael?

For those who weren't around to remember -- SNCC is the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and it was 1964:

“The only position for women in SNCC is prone."

The damn thing is that I can't remember which woman drily correct him first; he presumably meant "supine".

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stokely_Carmichael

n 1964, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson presented an indignant assault on the treatment of women civil rights workers in a paper entitled "The Position of Women in SNCC," to a SNCC staff meeting. Stokely Carmichael reputedly responded, "The only position for women in SNCC is prone."

Apparently Carmichael also said:

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

He should have listened to himself more.