"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."

Justice, Tools, Will

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"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."

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"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."

Risk,

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."

Nothing,

"There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else."

Family, Mother, Key, Want, Woman

"There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists."

God, Lesbian

"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."

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"I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community."

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"The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot."

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"The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower."

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"I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?"

Sexuality,

"In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us."

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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"God befriend us as our cause is just!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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