Frances M. Beal Professions : Political activist Born : January 13, 1940 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Frances M. Beal To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns. Frances M. Beal mean history commitment Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave. Frances M. Beal slave black america We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it. Frances M. Beal reading teacher children The advertising media in this country continuously informs the American male of his need for indispensable signs of his virility. Frances M. Beal males media country Similar Authors Asmaa Mahfouz political-activist Amy Carter political-activist Abdullah Ocalan political-activist Doris "Granny D" Haddock political-activist H. L. Hunt political-activist Ed Crane political-activist All Authors