Baptist women valorized labor by fusing domestic servant with queen imagery

Evidence

We do ourselves honor when we have associated with us in our religious life women who think it a disgrace not to toil rather than those who look down in disdain upon a woman because she has character enough to work for an honest living. It does not require very much character nor brains to scorn labor, but it requires a great deal of both in this day of false pride to earn your bread by sweating for it and holding up your head above public sentiment, feeling in your heart that though you are a servant, yet you are a queen.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 944

Categorization

• CANDY: A quotable, striking image — a woman who works as a servant feeling ‘though you are a servant, yet you are a queen.’
• XREF: connects to: Black Baptist women fused a rhetoric of war with one of domesticity — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 670; Black Baptist women blended feminine and masculine self-images as homemakers and soldiers — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 650; Black Baptist women strategically mixed war and domestic imagery to justify public activism — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 670

Broader Connections

• Black Baptist women fused a rhetoric of war with one of domesticity #expands (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 670
• Black Baptist women blended feminine and masculine self-images as homemakers and soldiers #expands (0.80) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 650
• Black Baptist women strategically mixed war and domestic imagery to justify public activism #qualifies (0.75) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 670