Firsts Quote by Robin Morgan

“Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.”

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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

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Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.

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It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of…

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Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a…

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The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

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The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

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Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

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Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self...

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A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for…

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No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

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Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

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