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Audre Lorde 72
writer and activist 1934–1992Related quotes
Source: The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 1, “The Law of Gravitation,” p. 34
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)
Ismail Haniyeh
(1963) Palestinian politician
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/12CCCEA9-E92B-4C1D-88E4-3F08BE449536.htm
Lawrence Weiner
(1942) American artist
Lawrence Weiner. "Declaration of Intent" (1968); cited in: Lucy R. Lippard (1973). Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. p. xvii
“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.”
Gladys Bronwyn Stern
(1890–1973) British writer
Quoted in The Girl's Book of Positive Quotations By Steve Deger, Leslie Ann Gibson, p. 28
Louis Farrakhan
(1933) leader of the Nation of Islam
Farrakhan speaks in Birmingham to support Voting Rights Act https://www.al.com/spotnews/2013/06/farrakhan_speaks_in_birmingham.html (14 June 2013)
Dawud Wharnsby
(1972) Canadian musician
On various concerns about writing his song "The Veil", and reactions to it.
Beating the drums of hope and faith (2004)
Context: We spend so much time defending the Qur’an from attacks that it’s sexist, we rant and rave about how Islam gave rights to women over 1400 years ago, but our sisters are still not in position of leadership within our community. Our sisters are still praying next to the shoe-racks while the men have plush carpets beneath their lazy foreheads and our public women’s shelters are full of Muslim women fleeing from abusive husbands and dead-beat dads. The sad reality is that our community does display sexist attitudes to women. Writing a song about Hijab seemed pretty shallow to me in light of the other issues surrounding women that we Muslims are too self-righteous to face. … I began to see that some Muslim women look down on others for not covering, or that many Muslim men judge sisters who wear hijab differently from those who don’t. A sister shows up at the mosque one day without hijab and she is treated rudely; she shows up the next day with hijab and she is treated like a queen. Such a scenario is a blatant treatment of the woman as an object, no different than the judgements we see made in secular society of women’s appearances. In the end, it is not about the piece of cloth. It is about the relationship with God, and I know I don’t want anybody judging me so I don’t think it is right for us to judge each other.