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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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" We must all stand against both the continual, systematic, and structural racial inequities that normalize daily violence as well as against extreme acts of racial terror. "

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Against

Daily

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

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Legal

Some

Worst

" We might have to broaden our scope of how we think about where women are vulnerable, because different things make different women vulnerable. "

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Things

Because

Women

" Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas. "

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Black

Forgotten

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

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Trial

American

Racial

" People with problems are not problem people. "

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Problems

Problem

People

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

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Racism

Struggle

Against

" 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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You

Look

Together

" Having a monolithic view of feminism is suffocating. "

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View

Suffocating

Having

" Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values. "

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Basic

Answer

Censorship

" A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in particular workforces. "

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Think

People

Gender

" What many people, I think, don't really understand is how much their rights really turn on the interpretation of the Supreme Court. "

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Understand

Think

Supreme Court

" 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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Vision

Trying

Thinking

" Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion. "

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Way

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" Police violence against black women is very real. "

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Women

Police

Black

" All too often, girls are ignored because their challenges aren't thought to be as serious as those faced by boys. "

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Thought

Because

Serious

" 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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Race

Class

Gender

" In every generation and in every intellectual sphere and in every political moment, there have been African American women who have articulated the need to think and talk about race through a lens that looks at gender or think and talk about feminism through a lens that looks at race. "

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Gender

Women

Political

" 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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Never

Going

First

" When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose. "

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End

Race

" Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination, humiliation, and despair. "

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End

Violence

Despair

" There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people. "

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Color

Indigenous People

People

" Families, community leaders, and others must create the public will to address the challenges facing black girls and other girls of color as well by listening to them, valuing their experiences, and becoming actively involved in creating policies and innovative programs that promote their well-being. "

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Challenges

Listening

Community

" '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. "

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Race

Looking

Respect

" 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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Never

Burden

Life

" 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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Students

Prisons

Poverty

" 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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Train

Watch

Democracy

" Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don't ourselves experience. "

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Class

Power

Work

" While many Americans agree that 'the system is rigged' economically, few are aware of the ways in which racial inequality has been structured and embedded in our society. This is why candid, fact-based discussions about racial inequality are so desperately needed. "

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Inequality

Why

Society

" We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again. "

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You

Always

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