“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.”
— Foreword to The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery (1996) by Marjorie Spiegel, p. 14.
“He has told me he likes men as well as he likes women, which seems only natural, he says, since he is the offspring of two sexes as well as two races. No one is surprised he is biracial; why should they be surprised he is bisexual? This is an explanation I have never heard and cannot entirely grasp; it seems too logical for my brain.”
— Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992).
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
— As quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin, p. 173.
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”
— From the film poster for Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth.
“The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.”
— Poet, Author Alice Walker Meets the Inner Journey with Global Activism in "The Cushion in the Road" (May 28, 2013).
“I think unless the people are given information about what is happening to them, they will die in ignorance. And i think that's the big sin. I mean if there is such a thing as a sin, that's it, to destroy people and not have them have a clue about how this is happening.”
— Poet, Author Alice Walker Meets the Inner Journey with Global Activism in "The Cushion in the Road" (May 28, 2013).

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