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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
We cannot be dutiful and creative at the same moment. This doesn't mean the alternatives are either a slavish political correctness or total inattention to political issues and consequences.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
It seems to me to be fully alive is to seek justice. Otherwise, what's the point?...Why should anyone read a book by someone who doesn't care about justice?
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
The more the Israeli and Palestinian movements come into communication and coordination, the more possible peace seems. (p 110)
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
As long as we cherish the creativity of ordinary women and value what women themselves have valued, we center exactly on the passionately egalitarian vision named in "women's liberation."
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
one task in creating a culture is to reclaim what one ought to have learned but that somehow went by and was lost.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
consider that your ultimate goal may not be quantitative.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
Few have written about the joy of political life, the sense of comradeship and achievement. As activists we need to believe in vision and imagination; communicate a sense of possibility. Bleakness is not the whole story, and escape is not the only alternative. Change is possible.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
War reduces things to a very simple level. Maybe this is why patriarchy likes war: the simplicity of it. The longing for good guys and bad guys, the goal-directed win-or-lose male adventure-and of course for this country it's almost always been win.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
I've been to Palestine. It exists, right next to Israel. The problem is not that Palestine threatens or erases Israel. The problem is that there are Israeli soldiers all over Palestine. (p 172)
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
second-wave feminism produced a bevy of writers determined not to abandon the public world to men, or to devalue the private world usually inhabited by women.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)
Some of the bravest political work in this country and around the world has happened because people often too young to grasp their own mortality stick their necks out. The job of the rest of us is to rise to the occasion of their bravery. The young inspire the middle-aged and old with courage, and they project our vision where it belongs, into the future.
The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence and Resistance (1992)