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I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Robin Morgan

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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
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Robin Evonne Morgan
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Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.
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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
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Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
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raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
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Women are a colonized people.
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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
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My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.
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Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.
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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
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I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.
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If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
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being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
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The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
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The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.
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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
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A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.
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Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.
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