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" Feminists must denounce the use of white insecurity - whether in relation to white womanhood, white neighborhoods, white politics, or white wealth - to justify the brutal assaults against black people of all genders. "

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" Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation. "

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Racial

Long

Transformation

" What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives. "

" I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them. "

Steven Wright

Want

Them

" I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. "

" When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost. "

" We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. "

" When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality. "

" The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. "

" I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president. "

" In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. "

" In politics, you've got to have a fallback in our line of work because your career can be over in an instant. Not that I would make much money playing a harmonica. "

" The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee. "

" I discourage a cult of personality. "

" I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. "

" The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture. "

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Change

Together

Work

" Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. "

" You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. "

" In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. "

" Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life. "

" Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. "

" Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining. "

" And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office. "

" War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. "

" Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. "

" 'Separate but unequal' didn't work in respect to race, it doesn't work in respect to gender, and it especially doesn't work when looking at the intersection of race and gender. "

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Race

Looking

Respect

" Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor. "

" Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. "

" I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. "

Ray Bradbury

" A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. "

" Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. "