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Robin Morgan Quotes
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Activist Quotes
Category:
American Activist Quotes
Date of Birth:
January 3, 1941
Nationality:
American
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Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.
Robin Morgan

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Robin Morgan

I am an artist and a political being as well.
Robin Morgan

I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.
Robin Morgan

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
Robin Morgan

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
Robin Morgan

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
Robin Morgan

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Robin Morgan

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.
Robin Morgan

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
Robin Morgan

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Robin Morgan

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
Robin Morgan

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.
Robin Morgan

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.
Robin Morgan

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.
Robin Morgan

We are the women men warned us about.
Robin Morgan

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
Robin Morgan

We're not inherently anything but human.
Robin Morgan

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
Robin Morgan

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.
Robin Morgan



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