Anita Hill

Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956) is an American lawyer, educator and author. She is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of the university's Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She became a national figure in 1991 when she testified on her sexual harassment allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her supervisor at the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Anita_Hill_by_Gage_Skidmore in 2018

Quotes

• The Supreme Court is only as good as the people who are on it.
  • "Why Anita Hill wants us to take the long view on the Supreme Court", Vox.com (May 13, 2022)

• One of the things that we’re not talking about enough is prevention
  • "Anita Hill: 'Harassment has not ended in every corner'", NBC News (October 28, 2022)

• "Some of these things are encouraging, some are entirely discouraging when we start to look at the numbers, but all of it points to the fact that this could be a moment where, if these things come together, we can actually make some change"
  • [1] on what she hope that readers will take away from her book

• "I believe that’s why we should – how we should be looking at Dobbs, not just as an indicator of what is going to happen on reproductive rights, but also what will happen to us as a country in terms of how much we value the civil rights of individuals and especially marginalized people"
  • [2] she said on “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace

• "Our goal is to make sure that all individuals are protected from gender-based violence, and we can't get there without dealing with the issue of racism"
  • [3] on gender base violence

• "Hope doesn’t necessarily come from the tangible things, it doesn’t have to come because something monumental happened. It can come from something small that gives people hope"
  • [4] Anita hill on hope

Quotes about

• the Clarence Thomas hearings, in which Anita Hill represented all of us to a group of men who just didn't get it.
  • Kathleen Alcalá "Against All Odds" (1992) included in The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing (2007)