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Quote by Audre Lorde
I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not hav

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. Weve been taught that silence would save us, but it wont. – Audre Lorde

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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. – Audre Lorde

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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction. – Audre Lorde

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When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture. – Audre Lorde

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I more fear what is within me than what comes from without. – Martin Luther

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My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to peoples sense of alarm… but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here. – Brit Hume

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A persons fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The only people that should vote should be legal. – Pam Bondi

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I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. – Christopher Hitchens

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