403 quotes found
“War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.”
“God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidar...”
“Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.”
“In all our human squabbles, threats of nuclear war, denying climate change, we hardly stop to think of the trees that bend in the wind, the bird that feeds it's young, and the elephants bedding dow...”
“During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be tha...”
“To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost”
“Examples of goodness that know no ethnic, religious, racial, or political bounds are important documents of war, as they also represent an axis around which a healthy future can be constructed afte...”
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.”
“With all these occurrences of death facing me, I thought about issues of freedom. If government projects the idea that we, as people inhabiting this particular land mass, have freedom, then for the...”
“Your politics are so far right,They're wrong.”
“What Friedan gave to the world was, "the problem that has no name." She not only named it but dissected it. The advances of science, the development of labor-saving appliances, the development of t...”
“The 1970s-80s social movement called U.S. third world feminism functioned as a central locus of possibility, an insurgent social movement that shattered the construction of any one ideology as the ...”
“It's actually such a tragedy that I live in a world that is inspired by me putting my body or mental state on the line”
“I became a feminist activist propelled in part by outrage and despair, and a stubborn determination to shape a life, and create a literature, that was not a lie.”
“She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been proven right.”
“Being a feminist in principle is easy compared to being a feminist in practice. For men and women, living each day in practical defiance of thousands of years of gender-based streaming is so much h...”
“My activism does not need proof to be real. It exists in the work of my bones against weight in the morning.”
“The academic and writer Sara Ahmed has written brilliantly about the idea of the feminist killjoy, and why it should be embraced because feminism isnt about making everyone around the table feel c...”
“I believe the era of the militant lady is back.”
