“To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.”

Ruth Hubbard
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I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.

bell hooks
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Rather than challenging the sources of white supremacy, that is, the very narrative of the origins of the United States, current multiculturalism tends toward attempting to include nonwhites in the traditional narrative without altering it substantially.

Roxanne Dumbar-Ortiz
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Radical feminists became increasingly marginalized and eventually supplanted by cultural feminists who expressed politics less critical of, and so more compatible with, the state and its financial centers.

Joy James
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Ideologies are the thought forms of the dominant culture, and they inform not only our thinking but also our feeling and our being. The more awake we are to how we are shaped, the more responsible we can be in our actions.

Mab Segrest
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The value of labor. The labor theory of value. Her labor married to his value. We were told that Zeus swallowed Metis whole Her labor from his belly disappearing she gave him advice. Her labor not counted in his production. The wife of the laborer called working class. The wife of the shopkeeper called petit bourgeois. The wife od the factory owner called bourgeois.

Susan Griffin
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Hurting women is bad. Feminists are against it, not for it.

Andrea Dworkin
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You don’t go into coalition because you like it. The only reason you would consider trying to team up with somebody who could posibly kill you, is because that’s the only way you can figure you can stay alive.

Bernice Johnson Reagon