“The violence of hierarchy is the violence that the powerful use against the dispossessed to keep them subordinated. As an example, the violence committed for wealth is socially invisible or committed at enough of a distance that its beneficiaries don't… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself. — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive. — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
One group of people that get a lot of PTSD are soldiers who have been in combat. You know who gets more PTSD, has… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“There is a name for the tsunami wave of extermination: the Holocene extinction event. There's no asteroid this time, only human behavior, behavior that we could choose to stop. Adolph Eichman's excuse was that no one told him that the concentration camps were wrong. We've all seen the pictures of the drowning polar bears. Are we so ethically numb that… — Lierre Keith Copy Share
“The necessity of political struggle especially means confronting and contradicting those on the left who say that resistance is futile. Such people have no place in a movement for justice. For actionists who choose to work aboveground, this confrontation with detractors - and some of these detractors reject the idea of resistance of any kind - is one of the… — Lierre Keith Copy Share
What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“There is no place left for the buffalo to roam. There’s only corn, wheat, and soy. About the only animals that escaped the biotic cleansing of the agriculturalists are small animals like mice and rabbits, and billions of them are killed by the harvesting equipment every year. Unless you’re out there with a scythe, don’t forget to add them to… — Lierre Keith Copy Share
“Life is literally a process of one creature eating another, whether it’s bacteria breaking down plants or animals, plants strangling each other, animals going… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“John Locke, called the Father of Liberalism, made the argument that the individual instead of the community was the foundation of society. He believed that government existed by the consent of the governed, not by divine right. But the reason government is necessary is to defend private property, to keep people from stealing from each other. This idea appealed to… — Lierre Keith Copy Share
“Masculinity is simply a conglomeration of the personality traits necessary for the patriarchal soldier-rapist: physically strong, emotionally cauterized, rational, domineering, cruel. All of this is supposed to add up to "handsome" as well. Likewise femininity is ultimately a description of the personality that results from trauma and powerlessness: weak, passive, yielding, emotional, hyper-vigilant to the needs of the dominators and… — Lierre Keith Copy Share
People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not feminism; to quote Catharine… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
