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When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat


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The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.



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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.



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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.



Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

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