Class Quote by Rebecca Solnit Download Open image “Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.” — Rebecca Solnit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Class Doe Gender Nationality Race Racism Religion Violence
Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Violence isn't the answer. Violence is the question and the answer is yes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women. — Lee Maracle Copy Share Image
Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing. — Lena Headey Copy Share Image
Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world. — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women.… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not all it… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
You’re crazy,” said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class. — Anonymous Copy Share Image