QUOTES
-Ecology-
"The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground
water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost
of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically,
the economic incentive has been to pollute."
Citizenship
The point of a nation is not to draw a line in the sand and keep its members behind
it, but to create world citizens who are secure enough to treat others equally.
Education
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
-Family-
However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with
a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified
by sex, race, class, religion, or all four. However far it may expand, the progression
inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.
Hunger
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
-Labor-
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of
fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of
women at home, or in the office.
Leadership
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races,
and in black and other minority men.
-Parents-
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
-Women-
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they
are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human
beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this
system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no
roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.
"In
my heart, I think a woman has two choices: either she's a feminist or a masochist."
Even
when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help
teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those
groups may be down-played or forgotten.
Today
a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
