Clara Fraser famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us. It was not ever thus. And it's not going to be this way, come the revolution!
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the tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines.
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We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop ...
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To me there can be no liberation without socialism. And conversely, there can be no socialism without liberation for everybody.
-- Clara Fraser
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The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.
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I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.
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Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.
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Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
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I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
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One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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