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"Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win."
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
"Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know."
"It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser."
"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."
"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."
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"I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents."
"They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries."
"I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture."
"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership."
"We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong."
"When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law."
"We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places."
"Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds."
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