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Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of departure for all conversations about discrimination. Being front and center in conversations about racism or sexism is a complicated privilege that is often hard to see. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

History Legal Worst Some Perfectly Been Tragedies

Policing is an integral part of governance. It is a whole, but it is also a part of the larger whole. Just like a human organ like the head, it's got intelligence, stamina, strategy and surveillance. But it cannot function independently in the absence of other life-sustaining organs. Kiran Bedi

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I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit. Larry Brilliant

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman. Lilly Ledbetter

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A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences. Louis Farrakhan

Struggle Differences Faults Reconcile Brother He Wanted Shortcomings Who

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters. Louis Farrakhan

Freedom Call Terrorists Them Fighters

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm. Louis Farrakhan

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me. Louis Farrakhan

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. Lucretia Mott

Truth Too Ourselves Rather Than Authorities Often Bind

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent. Lucretia Mott

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. Lydia M. Child

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking. Malala Yousafzai

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I believe the gun has no power at all. Malala Yousafzai

Gun Power Believe

In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor. Malala Yousafzai

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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere. Malala Yousafzai

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On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.' Malala Yousafzai

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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban. Malala Yousafzai

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I want to make this world perfect. Malala Yousafzai

Inspirational World Perfect Make Want

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