Robin Morgan Quotes

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Robin Morgan

Profession : Activist

Birth : January 29, 1941

Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere.

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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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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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We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

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I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

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Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

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Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

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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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The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.

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In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

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Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.

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I am an artist and a political being as well.

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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 other people struggling for their freedom.

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Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

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There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

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We are the women men warned us about.

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We're not inherently anything but human.

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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

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