"Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?"

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Source : "Ellen Willis, 1941-2006" by Alice Echols, "The Nation", November 10, 2006.

Ellen Willis

“I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything." -A”
“Okay, I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I'm a very superstitious person. I'm walking onto the plane as we speak. I'm putting my hands on the outside of the plane and my feet are on the lip of the plane. I have to do it every time before I fly.”
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
“Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.”
“I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.”
“Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.”
“Russian fighters are always bouncing around and using a lot of effort with the punches they throw and grinding for takedowns. Anyone would get tired with that style.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation where they would judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. However, sadly, the tears of Trayvon Martin's mother and father remind us that, far too frequently, the color of one's skin remains a license to profile, to arrest and to even murder with no regard for the content of one's character.”

Source : "50 Years After March on Washington, Tens of Thousands Say Struggle for MLK’s “Dream” Continues". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 26, 2013.

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