“You don't need to know people in order to grieve with them. You grieve with them in order to know them.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“No one is special, and everyone is needed.”
Source: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“A commitment to disrupting the state's violence when and where we see it takes feminism outside of the realm of words and theories and makes it a living, breathing set of principles. It reminds us that where we can make interventions, we should and that only work that seeks to shake and unsettle the very foundations of the sexist state is feminist work.”
Source: Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
“Local issues have global ramifications.”
Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
“No one should be asked to feel empathy or compassion for their oppressors. I have learned that we do not need to feel anything for our opponents at all in order to practice love. Love is labor that returns us to wonder—it is seeing another person's humanity, even if they deny their own. We just have to choose to wonder about them.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“When we leave people alone with their pain, their alienation becomes the precondition for radicalization.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“Unresolved grief inside a person is tragic; unresolved grief inside a nation is catastrophic.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“As I see it, academia is the mirror of society, and the ugly academic reality we are witnessing nowadays is an indication that many academics have let the society down, and that we have not done a good job in being part of people’s struggle for justice.”
“The only way to deal with guilt among those who refuse to repent is the palliation that comes from social activism. Involvement in social movements like the civil-rights, abortion-rights, and gay-rights movements became a way of calming troubled consciences.”
Source: Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control
“[W]e are the ones to blame for enabling and even nourishing the toxic workplaces. In continuing to cooperate with a profoundly unhealthy and exploitative employment system, we become at once the dagger and the wound. Wounds never heal so long as they continue to cooperate with daggers. In a sense, the cure is in the disease itself. Our silence is the disease. Our serious commitment for change and for exposing power abuses and bullies is the cure.”