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227 Feminist Quotes

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

Never saw An individual Any particular Leadership powers
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

Get depressed Sometimes
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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

Different today The lack Political connection Black
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It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

The realm Cultural politics Young people Work through
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work

Racism A weapon The wealthy To increase
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

I decided Teach I think Any person
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

To understand Society functions Relationship between Men
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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

For slavery Death penalty Been abolished A haven
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
We know The road Freedom Always been
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Poor people, people of color,especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Poor people Color Be found In prison
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

This country Needs Unemployed politicians
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Racism More clandestine More hidden Phenomenon
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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

The importance Doing activist Give back Consider yourself
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

We have Talk about Liberating minds Society
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

Black woman My politics Political affiliation Bound up
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Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

Avoiding offense Don't accept As equals
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I would rather clean than beg.

Would rather Clean Than beg
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I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

I confront Elite's self image Tolerant Noses women
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Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

Muslim leaders Ask themselves Their relationship Political movement
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Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is wrong.

Majority Not terrorist Sympathetic With terrorism
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Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.

Young people The faith Fired up By preachers
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A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in a Muslim family, the honor of the man is between the legs of a woman.

Western woman Father's property Own lifestyle
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The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

The idea People Just friendly Demonstrate
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You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.

Let individuals Own choices Respect that Own child
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I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day Catholics or Jews than that they became Muslims.

Are multitudes Seeking God Reject atheism
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I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

Christianity Enlightened enough Separate spirituality Life
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Feelings Genuine Paths Knowledge
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If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Define Myself Crunched People's
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
Life Short What Do
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Differences Divide Inability Recognize
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Free Woman Shackles Different
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Nothing Accept Myself Against me
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

Learned Listening People Honesty
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

Believe Caring Myself Self-indulgent
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

Pain Important Evade Succumb
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Dare Powerful Strength Service
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Work Living Recognize Difference
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…and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength

Visibility Makes Vulnerable Source
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You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

You Use Someone Willing
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.
We Consciously Study Tender
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.

Times Hard Do something Works
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.

Sometimes Blessed Choose Time
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You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for. This is the way genuine learning takes place. That’s a very difficult way to live, but it also has served me. It’s been an asset as well as a liability.

Become Strong Genuine Learning
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.

Recognize Knowledge Mediated Feeling
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Our visions begin with our desires.

Visions Begins Desires
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In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real.

Forefront Change Poetry Possibility
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Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

Difference Tolerated Fund Creativity
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

Believe Important Spoken Risk
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Without community, there is no liberation.

Without Community No Liberation
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

We Raised Fear Within
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