The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.
Kimberle Williams CrenshawRead
Having a monolithic view of feminism is suffocating.
Interpretation
Feminism is diverse, and viewing it as a single entity can limit understanding and progress.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw's quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing the multifaceted nature of feminism. A monolithic view simplifies and distorts the broader goals and experiences within the feminist movement, thereby stifling diverse voices and perspectives that are essential for genuine progress towards gender equality.
In practice
In a speech about women's rights, you might use this quote to highlight the importance of inclusivity in the feminist movement.
The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.
I have a wonderful, diverse, and young staff at the AAPF who pretty much work around the clock trying to figure out how we promote the idea that social justice requires us to be intersectional in our thinking and in our scope of vision.
If you don't have a lens that's been trained to look at how various forms of discrimination come together, you're unlikely to develop a set of policies that will be as inclusive as they need to be.
We have to move back to the idea that education isn't about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That's not what democracy is about.
We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or anyone else in this country. The story of black women is critical because those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.
All too often, girls are ignored because their challenges aren't thought to be as serious as those faced by boys.
All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.
Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.
If we take the poor away from the Gospel, we won't be able to understand the whole message of Jesus Christ.
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.
The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten
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