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Quote by Margaret Mead

“We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.”

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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist known for her groundbreaking fieldwork and theoretical contributions. She is renowned for her studies of the Samoan, Arapesh, and Australian Aboriginal peoples, which had a profound impact on the fields of anthropology and sociology. more

“Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.”

“When I say my brother and his wife are heterosexual, that doesn't mean I'm talking about their sex lives. Likewise, when we say someone is gay, we're talking about sexual orientation, not their sexual activity.”

Mean Sex Justice Talking Wife Brother Gay Activity Social Justice My Brother Orientation

Author:Vito Russo

“Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting. It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.”

Lasts Sex Hurt Justice Practice Prejudice Social Justice Our Society Acceptable

Author:Bernice Sandler

“It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).”

May Stills Names Justice Birth Calling Standards Social Justice Explaining Maidens Double Standard Maiden Names

Book:Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within

Source: Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within

“The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.”

World Kind Political Interest Justice Support Economic Social Justice Chosen Historian Emphasis Ideological Distortion Contending

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.”

Has Beens Water Taste Coffee Wet Sleeves

Book:Treadmill to Oblivion

Source: Treadmill to Oblivion

“Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.”

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Author:Camille Paglia

“When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.”