American - Activist | 1959 -
We might have to broaden our scope of how we think about where women are vulnerable, because different things make different women vulnerable.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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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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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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People with problems are not problem people.
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When you ask people to name victims of police brutality, for the most part, nobody will give you a woman's name.
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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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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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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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In a true democracy, there has to be a line between deliberative debate and mob rule. Trump has crossed the line, and much of the media has exacerbated the problem by treating his remarks as entertainment, effectively encouraging his competition to do the same.
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Having a monolithic view of feminism is suffocating.
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When we advocate for violence against women to be eliminated on campuses, we say, 'Well, actually, it's not just on campuses we have to worry about.' We might have to worry about high schools. We might have to worry about police precincts and cars. We might have to worry about public housing.
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Police violence against black women is very real.
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