Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.
For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is to create a culture that will encourage and promote… - Lierre Keith
For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is to create a culture that will encourage and promote…
- Lierre Keith
Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action. - Lierre Keith
Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action.
Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out lo… - Lierre Keith
Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out lo…
Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's j… - Lierre Keith
Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's j…
People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not feminism; to quote Catharine MacKinnon, it’… - Lierre Keith
People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not feminism; to quote Catharine MacKinnon, it’…
Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems. - Lierre Keith
Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems.
These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and they still are. I want my life to be… - Lierre Keith
These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and they still are. I want my life to be…
What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species a da… - Lierre Keith
What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species a da…
This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species went extinc… - Lierre Keith
This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species went extinc…
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