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A movement, even a radical movement, is also an institution with its own set of leaders, power dynamics and hierarchy.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
The young inspire the middle-aged and old with courage, and they project our vision where it belongs, into the future.
Learning a language stretches a long way to help create trust, to strengthen our ability to communicate and to understand another people. It also signals willingness to give up centrality.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
We must want equality, and we must grasp that equality does not coexist with class structure.
It is from this solid, self-knowing place that we can work towards peace and justice
We forget that people can change, including our own people; including ourselves.
We are confused. Only by admitting our confusion can we begin to build something new.
Anti-communism has been the U.S.'s powerful pro-war tool since 1945.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
This desire to identify with whiteness, as well as bigotry and fear, blocks solidarity.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
We know that while nothing guarantees allies, callousness guarantees callousness.
What the writer must value-the small life, the daily life, the significance of the individual consciousness and experience-are exactly what war violates.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
We need to learn from the most politically bold and creative among us. (We also need to offer concrete solidarity and support to those we learn from, lest learning from mean ripping off.)
What I think we must keep poised in response to our knowledge that communism as practiced has failed; so has capitalism.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
Jewishness is a leitmotif in and out of my brain; not the main theme.
Some Notes on Jewish Lesbian Identity (1980)
Your privilege, insofar as it divides you from others, is in your way, unless you resolve how to use it for others, as well as for yourself.
Keeping balance means being very open to change, especially in a time like now when the ground is shifting. It does not mean digging in your heels.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
The attitude that claims we-of any group- are essentially victims and so can't be charged with our behavior is destructive to all of us.
Are we so attached to structures developed years ago as to believe that these are the only structures in which our organizations can function?
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
However difficult, weary, or frightening, there is only one way to go: forward. But singing.
I posit a Jewish identity that embraces diversity and resists a closed circle. My hope is to join a debate about home, diversity, and justice.
The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism (2007)