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" I think it's important for the American people to know that the position of originalism isn't itself an originalist position. "

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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" 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. "

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" Our democracy cannot be left in the hands of those who would rather watch or participate in a train wreck than stop it. "

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" Ideally, schools should be supportive environments for students. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies tend to funnel vulnerable students out of schools and into prisons, low-income jobs, and poverty. "

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" Police violence against black women is very real. "

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" 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. "

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" While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of departure for all conversations about discrimination. Being front and center in conversations about racism or sexism is a complicated privilege that is often hard to see. "

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" At the core of conservative social policy about race are old ideas that link racial inequality to non-traditional family formation and its attendant culture of poverty. "

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" Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal. "

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" Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged as a sign of intelligence and critical thinking in white boys. "

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" I think that the same kind of openness and fluidity and willingness to interrogate power that we, as feminists, expect from men in alliance on questions of class should also be the expectation that women of colour can rely upon with our white feminist allies. "

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" I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society. "

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" Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity. "

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" The point of feminism is you shouldn't have to be a man to be treated with equal respect. "

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" The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined. "

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" Justice Scalia was a person who effectively bludgeoned the life out of the living Constitution, the Constitution that gave us desegregation, that gave us women's rights, that gave us environmental protections and political access. "

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" 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. "

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" To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a burden to you. "

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" School is now a place where punishment and discipline are prioritized over serving students and educating them. Any moment where a student falls outside scripted behavior becomes an opportunity for law enforcement to come in, criminalizing ordinary things people do every day. "

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" We're never going to come to a moment where all of us who claim to be feminists can agree about what the first priority of feminism is. "

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" When people talked about O.J. Simpson being race-neutral, that was a race card. It just meant we don't think of him as black. But race-neutral is just like flesh-tone Band-aids. It's not neutral; it's white. "

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" 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. "

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