Religion
“Religious zeal makes democracy problematic because it turns every attempt at understand and compromise – the hallmarks of democracy – into an evidentiary test of religious righteousness.” – Rights of Passage
Archive | Quotables
Religion
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
“Women ought not to be forced to choose between freedom and God.” – Rights of Passage
Power
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
“We must subordinate power in all its manifestations to our shared humane values.” – Architects for Peace
Patriarchy
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
“Many women now realize that their problem is not simply how to contend with men, but also how to re-imagine and help reconstruct a social order that has entrapped both men and women.” – Leading To Choices
Patriarchy
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
“The values we have developed as feminists cannot be achieved within a patriarchal setting—whether local, national, or global. On the other hand, to ignore the systemic forces that shape our interactive lives is to become Quixotic.” – Rights of Passage
Islamic Traditionism, and Colonialism
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
“For most of the Third World the experience of colonialism led the dialectic of encounter to an intellectual impasse by positing the ‘other’ as the enemy. As so much of the ‘other’ is appropriated in the developmental process, the enemy steals within and the impasse, intellectual and political at first, becomes a pathology of self-denial. [...]
Leadership and Communicative Relations
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
“We must change the meaning of success by turning hierarchical relations into communicative relations – leadership by command into leadership by sharing and consensus.” – Rights of Passage
Inclusive Leadership
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
“Once we accept the possibility that we can learn and decide together, we will be on our way to a significantly different and more productive interrelationship creating a far better future.” – Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women
Global Women’s Movement
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
“The conditions women have in common outrank and outvalue those that set them apart.” – Faith and Freedom
Exile
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
“We have learned first hand that nothing is worth the suffering, death, and destruction brought about by ideologies that in their fervor uproot so much and destroy so many and then fade away, blow up, or self-destruct. We learned in looking back over our lives that nothing is worth the breach of the sanctity of [...]
Tuesday, December 22, 2009