Gloria Steinem Quotes About Social Justice
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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
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As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.
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Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.
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Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.
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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).
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