Quotes About Activism

Sitting with Ricki [Abrams], talking with Ricki, I made a vow to her: that I would use everything I knew, including from prostitution, to make the women`s movement stronger and better; that I`d give my life to the movement and for the movement. I promised to honour-bound to the well-being of women, to do anything necessary for that well-being. I promised to live and to die if need be for women. I made that vow some thirty years ago, and I have not betrayed it yet.

With the possible exception of the Shakers, it is difficult to think of an American movement that has failed more spectacularly than antipornography feminism.

Only the toughest among women will make the necessary next moves, the revolutionary moves, and among prostituted women one finds the toughest if not always the best. If prostituted women worked together to end male supremacy, it would end. Surviving degradation is an ongoing process that gives you rights, honor and knowledge, because you earn them.

Nous avons dit non. (...) Il y a une réponse à notre non. Un fusil semi-automatique est une réponse. Il y a aussi des poignards. Ce que nous vivons n'est pas une conversation plaisante. sur la tuerie de Montréal

On what motivated her: I see it like this. All women are on a leash, because we are all oppressed. But those who get to adulthood without being raped or beaten have a longer leash than those who were. It should be that the ones with the longest leashes do more to help others. But it doesn't work that way, so we are the ones that fight the fight.

Feminists have good reasons for feeling tired. The backlash against feminism has been deeply stupid.

Feminists try hard to fight for women at the same time maintaining special loyalties to subgroups of men. How could we not?

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it

All the picketers look bored and hot and like they

One man who didn't like mob action even on behalf of civil rights was Thurgood Marshall. A skilled lawyer, he was redeeming civil rights for blacks the American way—by bringing lawsuits, making arguments, and winning in court. Marshall was the anti-Rousseau, using words, not pictures, to get justice. Martin

Politics for liberals is: Our mass against their mass. Except conservatives don't have a mass; liberals do. (But enough about Michael Moore.) This

Susan Rosenberg was a member of the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army, and The Family. She conspired to kill cops, blow up buildings, and stage an armed robbery of the Brinks truck in Nanuet, New York. Sentenced to fifty-eight years in prison for felony murder and possession of more than 700 pounds of explosives, Rosenberg was released from prison by President Clinton on his last day in office. Just

She joined a Communist youth group

Thurgood Marshall was bringing lawsuits and winning case after case before the Supreme Court, including the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education. Redeeming blacks' civil rights could have been accomplished without riots, marches, church burnings, police dogs, and murders.

Yarn bombing is about reclaiming and personalizing sterile or cold public places," Delia answered

When I realized that by "no one" this man was referring to approximately 750,000 children, I knew that I had found my passion and my cause.

If a world can be what we learn not to notice, noticing becomes a form of political labor.

If we start close to home, we open ourselves out. I will try to show how, in making sense of things that happen, we also draw on histories of thought and activism that precede us. Throughout I thus reflect on how feminism itself can be understood as an affective inheritance; how our own struggles to make sense of realities that are difficult to grasp become part of a wider struggle, a struggle to be, to make sense of being.

Kirton, Greene, and Dean argue that as diversity becomes more professionalized, practitioners are less likely to mobilize an activist framework. They suggest that diversity practitioners have an ambivalent relationship to institutions, as captured by their use of the phrase "tempered radical" to describe the attitude of practitioners (2007: 1981)

So much feminist and antiracist work is the work of trying to convince others that sexism and racism have not ended; that sexism and racism are fundamental to the injustices of late capitalism; that they matter.

So much of feminist and antiracist work is the work of trying to convince others that sexism and racism have not ended

for. We have feminist centers and feminist programs because we do not have feminist universities: that

So much of the inventiveness of student activism comes from an intimate knowledge of how institutions work to protect themselves, comes out of an experience of being obstructed, whether by procedures or by people.

I think it's your civic obligation to be utterly fucking furious about politics.