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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.

Audre Lorde

Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Apple Oppression
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Act Care Indulgence Myself Politics Preservation War
If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Love Probable Resistance Survival Time
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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Dismiss Experience Label People Try Used
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 Escape Focus Pieces Plant Revolution Seek Situation
We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Growth Inspirational Powerful Survival Women Empowerment
How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Deep Life One Liner Sleep Struggle
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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Encouragement Hard Time Inspirational Time Work
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Action Angry Guilty Lack Response
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Black Lives Matter Ideas
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Boundary Ethnic Oppression Women
I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Duty Important Intense Pain Rain Speak Survival Truimph Truth
A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Abortion Choice Live Pain Struggle Women
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.
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Arena Battle Blessing Choose Manner Revolution Stand
Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Afford Destroy Each Other Enemy Learning Violence
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot

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.

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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.

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