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Movement Quotes by Bell Hooks
- I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.
- The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
- The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
- I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
- What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black…
- Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated…
- It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of…
- Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family…
- The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the…
- Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture,…
- There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
- Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
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