Quote

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

Robin Morgan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
Activist
Actor
Editor
Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Political Scientist
Writer
Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
Environment
White
Males
Today
Protection
Human
Environmental
Humans
Destruction
Life
Planet
Planets
Responsible

More quotes by Robin Morgan

Image
We are the women men warned us about.
Robin Morgan
Image
The egg cackles and lays the chicken.
Robin Morgan
Image
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.
Robin Morgan
Image
raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?
Robin Morgan
Image
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.
Robin Morgan
Image
... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.
Robin Morgan
Image
Women are a colonized people.
Robin Morgan
Image
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.
Robin Morgan
Image
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.
Robin Morgan
Image
The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.
Robin Morgan
Image
Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.
Robin Morgan
Image
I am an artist and a political being as well.
Robin Morgan
Image
In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
Robin Morgan
Image
An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.
Robin Morgan
Image
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin Morgan
Image
being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.
Robin Morgan
Image
The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.
Robin Morgan
Image
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.
Robin Morgan
Image
When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.
Robin Morgan
Image
Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
Robin Morgan