"Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and……" — Lierre Keith
"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 is replaced by equity in a shift or substitution of institutions. That shift eventually forms new human relationships, both personally and across society."
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Lierre Keith
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18 Quotes by Lierre Keith
Lierre Keith has 18 quotes on this site.
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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…
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People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not…
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What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The…
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For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us…
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It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with…
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Do we want to feel better or do we want to be effective? Are we sentimentalists or are we warriors?
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If we took 75% of the world’s trashed rangeland, we could restore it from agriculture back to functioning prairies —…
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Tits are inconsequential, but someone pass me that kitten
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Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.
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What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.
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Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action.
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Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day…
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