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Top 25 Dorothy Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Some slaveowners also practiced slave-breeding by compelling slaves they considered “prime stock” to mate in the hopes of producing children especially suited for labor or sale.”

1. “Some slaveowners also practiced slave-breeding by compelling slaves they considered “prime stock” to mate in the hopes of producing children especially suited for labor or sale.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “The law made slave women’s children the property of the slaveowner. White masters therefore could increase their wealth by.”

2. “The law made slave women’s children the property of the slaveowner. White masters therefore could increase their wealth by.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Race persists because it continues to be politically useful.”

3. “Race persists because it continues to be politically useful.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “The story of control of Black reproduction begins with the experiences of slave women like Rose Williams. Black procreation helped to sustain slavery, giving slave masters an economic incentive to govern Black women’s reproductive lives.”

4. “The story of control of Black reproduction begins with the experiences of slave women like Rose Williams. Black procreation helped to sustain slavery, giving slave masters an economic incentive to govern Black women’s reproductive lives.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Thinking on this issue tends to fall into two camps: either race is a social category that has nothing to do with the biological causes of disease, or race is a biological category that causes differences in disease. Both approaches fail to grasp the way in which race as a social grouping can affect health – because of different life experiences based on race, not because of race-based genetic difference.”

5. “Thinking on this issue tends to fall into two camps: either race is a social category that has nothing to do with the biological causes of disease, or race is a biological category that causes differences in disease. Both approaches fail to grasp the way in which race as a social grouping can affect health – because of different life experiences based on race, not because of race-based genetic difference.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “This construct of the licentious temptress served to justify white men’s sexual abuse of Black women. The stereotype of Black women as sexually promiscuous also defined them as bad mothers. The.”

6. “This construct of the licentious temptress served to justify white men’s sexual abuse of Black women. The stereotype of Black women as sexually promiscuous also defined them as bad mothers. The.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Blaming Black mothers, then, is a way of subjugating the Black race as a whole. At the same time, devaluing motherhood is particularly damaging to Black women.”

7. “Blaming Black mothers, then, is a way of subjugating the Black race as a whole. At the same time, devaluing motherhood is particularly damaging to Black women.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “The greater the percentage of blacks living in a neighborhood, the higher the neighborhood death rate, regardless of neighborhood income level.52 It is the neighborhood that makes people unhealthy, not the susceptibility of black people living there. The rate of death is higher for all residents, including whites, who live in predominantly black neighborhoods.”

8. “The greater the percentage of blacks living in a neighborhood, the higher the neighborhood death rate, regardless of neighborhood income level.52 It is the neighborhood that makes people unhealthy, not the susceptibility of black people living there. The rate of death is higher for all residents, including whites, who live in predominantly black neighborhoods.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “There is less genetic variation in the entire human race than in a typical wild population of chimpanzees.”

9. “There is less genetic variation in the entire human race than in a typical wild population of chimpanzees.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Attributing blacks’ poor health to inherent racial difference allowed whites like Jefferson both to ignore how disease is caused by political inequality and to justify an unequal system by pointing to the inherent racial difference that disease supposedly reveals.”

10. “Attributing blacks’ poor health to inherent racial difference allowed whites like Jefferson both to ignore how disease is caused by political inequality and to justify an unequal system by pointing to the inherent racial difference that disease supposedly reveals.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “South Carolina did not overturn its ban on interracial marriage until 1998, and even then 38 percent of voters opposed the referendum.”

11. “South Carolina did not overturn its ban on interracial marriage until 1998, and even then 38 percent of voters opposed the referendum.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “The powerful Western image of childhood innocence does not seem to benefit Black children. Black children are born guilty.”

12. “The powerful Western image of childhood innocence does not seem to benefit Black children. Black children are born guilty.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “For three centuries, Black mothers have been thought to pass down to their offspring the traits that marked them as inferior to any white person. Along with this biological impairment, it is believed that Black mothers transfer a deviant lifestyle to their children that dooms each succeeding generation to a life of poverty, delinquency, and despair. A persistent objective of American social policy has been to monitor and restrain this corrupting tendency of Black motherhood. Regulating.”

13. “For three centuries, Black mothers have been thought to pass down to their offspring the traits that marked them as inferior to any white person. Along with this biological impairment, it is believed that Black mothers transfer a deviant lifestyle to their children that dooms each succeeding generation to a life of poverty, delinquency, and despair. A persistent objective of American social policy has been to monitor and restrain this corrupting tendency of Black motherhood. Regulating.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Reviewing the history of official racial classifications reminds us that these categories are not natural – and neither are the institutional inequities that race undergirds.”

14. “Reviewing the history of official racial classifications reminds us that these categories are not natural – and neither are the institutional inequities that race undergirds.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Three central themes, then, run through the chapters of this book. The first is that regulating Black women’s reproductive decisions had been a central aspect of racial oppression in America.”

15. “Three central themes, then, run through the chapters of this book. The first is that regulating Black women’s reproductive decisions had been a central aspect of racial oppression in America.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Even after Emancipation, political and economic conditions forced many Black mothers to earn a living outside the home.31 At the turn of the century nearly all Black women worked long days as sharecroppers, laundresses, or domestic servants in white people’s homes.”

16. “Even after Emancipation, political and economic conditions forced many Black mothers to earn a living outside the home.31 At the turn of the century nearly all Black women worked long days as sharecroppers, laundresses, or domestic servants in white people’s homes.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Mammy was both the perfect mother and the perfect slave: whites saw her as a “passive nurturer, a mother figure who gave all without expectation of return, who not only acknowledged her inferiority to whites but who loved them.”23 It is important to recognize, however, that Mammy did not reflect any virtue in Black motherhood.”

17. “Mammy was both the perfect mother and the perfect slave: whites saw her as a “passive nurturer, a mother figure who gave all without expectation of return, who not only acknowledged her inferiority to whites but who loved them.”23 It is important to recognize, however, that Mammy did not reflect any virtue in Black motherhood.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “As we will see below, when a female slave’s role as worker conflicted with that of childbearer, concern for high productivity often outweighed concern for high fertility.”

18. “As we will see below, when a female slave’s role as worker conflicted with that of childbearer, concern for high productivity often outweighed concern for high fertility.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Racial profiling by doctors can also lead to overmedication. A 2009 federally funded study found that doctors are four times as likely to prescribe powerful antipsychotic drugs to children covered by Medicaid as they are to children whose parents have private insurance.”

19. “Racial profiling by doctors can also lead to overmedication. A 2009 federally funded study found that doctors are four times as likely to prescribe powerful antipsychotic drugs to children covered by Medicaid as they are to children whose parents have private insurance.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Slaveholders were willing to overwork pregnant slaves at the expense of the health of both mother and child.”

20. “Slaveholders were willing to overwork pregnant slaves at the expense of the health of both mother and child.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “The state has the authority to take citizens’ private property – in this case, their genetic information – without due process. Those are the features of a totalitarian state, not a liberal democracy. Jim.”

21. “The state has the authority to take citizens’ private property – in this case, their genetic information – without due process. Those are the features of a totalitarian state, not a liberal democracy. Jim.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Biologically, there is one human race. Race applied to human beings is a political division: it is a system of governing people that classifies them into a social hierarchy based on invented biological demarcations.”

22. “Biologically, there is one human race. Race applied to human beings is a political division: it is a system of governing people that classifies them into a social hierarchy based on invented biological demarcations.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Along with these disparaging images of Black mothers, the media increasingly portray Black children as incapable of contributing anything positive to society.”

23. “Along with these disparaging images of Black mothers, the media increasingly portray Black children as incapable of contributing anything positive to society.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “A black man in San Diego who developed hypertension because of exposure to toxic chemicals lost half of his disability award after a doctor reported that blacks are genetically prone to hypertension.”

24. “A black man in San Diego who developed hypertension because of exposure to toxic chemicals lost half of his disability award after a doctor reported that blacks are genetically prone to hypertension.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “In Chapter 1, I describe the exploitation of slave women’s capacity to produce more slaves and the denial of their rights as mothers. After Emancipation, racism continued to corrupt notions of reproductive liberty, helping to direct the birth control movement which emerged early in this century.”

25. “In Chapter 1, I describe the exploitation of slave women’s capacity to produce more slaves and the denial of their rights as mothers. After Emancipation, racism continued to corrupt notions of reproductive liberty, helping to direct the birth control movement which emerged early in this century.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Jefferson conveniently attributed the physical differences he saw in blacks to their innate weaknesses rather than to their forced toil in the hot Virginia sun.”

26. “Jefferson conveniently attributed the physical differences he saw in blacks to their innate weaknesses rather than to their forced toil in the hot Virginia sun.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Second, the control of Black women’s reproduction has shaped the meaning of reproductive liberty in America.”

27. “Second, the control of Black women’s reproduction has shaped the meaning of reproductive liberty in America.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “In 1907, Indiana became the first state to pass an involuntary sterilization law, empowering state institutions to sterilize, without consent, criminals and “imbeciles” whose condition was “pronounced unimprovable” by a panel of physicians.”

28. “In 1907, Indiana became the first state to pass an involuntary sterilization law, empowering state institutions to sterilize, without consent, criminals and “imbeciles” whose condition was “pronounced unimprovable” by a panel of physicians.”

— Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts Quote: “Although these attitudes are not universally held, they influence the way many Americans think about reproduction. Myths are more than made-up stories. They are also firmly held beliefs that represent and attempt to explain what we perceive to be the truth. They can become more credible than reality, holding fast even in the face of airtight statistics and rational argument to the contrary.”

29. “Although these attitudes are not universally held, they influence the way many Americans think about reproduction. Myths are more than made-up stories. They are also firmly held beliefs that represent and attempt to explain what we perceive to be the truth. They can become more credible than reality, holding fast even in the face of airtight statistics and rational argument to the contrary.”

— Dorothy Roberts

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