" Then I remember I'd always been told, 'If a fellow's got so little manhood he'd hit a woman, it's up to that woman to relieve him of what few morsels of his masculinity remain.' I bent my knee and jammed my foot backward, up his crotch. "

― Melba Pattillo Beals , Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High