Lierre Keith Quotes

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• Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.
• 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 MacKinnon,…
• What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species…
• For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is to…
• It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs…
• Do we want to feel better or do we want to be effective? Are we sentimentalists or are we warriors?
• If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies — with their animal cohorts —…
• Tits are inconsequential, but someone pass me that kitten
• Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.
• What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.
• Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action.
• Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women.…
• Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination…
• One group of people that get a lot of PTSD are soldiers who have been in combat. You know who gets more PTSD, has higher…
• This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species…
• I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the ones reaping the…
• These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and they still are.…
• Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying…

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