bell hooks - Movement Quotes

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Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

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What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

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The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation.

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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

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Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on behalf of racial justice. However when it came to the issue of gender they were as sexist as their conservative cohorts.

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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

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Moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand in struggle side by side a gesture of defiance that heals, that makes new life and new growth possible. It is that act of speech, of "talking back" that is no mere gesture of empty words, that is the expression of our movement from object to subject—the liberated voice.

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I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.

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