Audre Lorde Quotes About Social Justice

Quotes about: Social Justice

• If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, People

• Your silence will not protect you.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspiring, Healing, Commitment

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

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  Pain, Air, Justice

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.74, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Writing, Diversity

  Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”

• Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

  Audre Lorde

  Cancer, Racism, Justice

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Dover Publications

• Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

  Audre Lorde

  Children, Suicidal, Dragons

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.74, Crossing Press

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