00:00Women, black people, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and all the minorities, that all of us must stand up together and say,
00:08no more.
00:14This inhuman system of exploitation will change, but only if we force it to change and force it together.
00:22If we are finally going to overcome, I want to hear one big yes. Yes! Are we going to vote?
00:37Yes! Are we going to march? Yes! Are we going to win? Yes!
00:46We've gained some beachheads, but the structures haven't changed yet. You know, the fundamental structures haven't changed, but at least
00:54we have, at least now we know it's not nature, it's not biology, you know, it's politics, it's unjust, and
01:01we've begun to change it.
01:02Consciousness is always the first step to making a profound change. And it is important that those women and other
01:12women and many men know that this is not necessary, that it is not natural.
01:20It was only a few years ago in my life that we were reading books, Freudian books, about how women
01:29were naturally masochistic.
01:31We sought out pain. We were perhaps the only oppressed group that was supposed to enjoy its oppression.
01:39To come from that state of mind to an understanding that it is wrong, that we indeed are full human
01:48beings, is huge. That is a huge leap in consciousness.
01:53Somehow, what happened to men was political, and what happened to women was cultural. So, the whole problem of female
02:06genital mutilation, or forced marriage, or, you know, everything you've heard this evening, was off limits because it was cultural.
02:17Flight attendants, as we now say, instead of stewardesses, are probably the single most important group when it comes to
02:25telling the story of women's employment in this women's movement.
02:31Because they were an all-female group in a very, very male environment.
02:40And I came to know how important they were to me, because ever since I started wandering around on the
02:49road in 1969 or 1970 or something, they were my flying girlfriends.
02:57They looked after me.
