There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
AUDRE LORDEInstitutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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