Urvashi Vaid Quotes
The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
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In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
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To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
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If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.
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I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That's not about feminism; that's about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.
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Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
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Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.
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That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
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My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.
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The new right-wing movement is a wide group of people committed to free speech, anti-war, trade. It's sympathetic to whistleblowers.
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Movement is the essence of life.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.
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Well, I think the world’s a bit fucked up and there is so much going on, but I try not to go too much into it because it’s just going to get me in a bad mood.
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The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.
