Melissa Farley famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not only prostituted women but all women.
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We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.
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For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.
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Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.
-- Melissa Farley
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Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.
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We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws
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The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.
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Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.
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There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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