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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
IMNSHO, no one should purport to speak for an oppressed demographic, as a member of that oppressed demographic,
without first reading - front to back - Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation …
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an "I it" relationship for an "I thou" relationship & ends up relegating persons to the status of things. Hence [it] is not only politically, economically & sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong & sinful. …
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
Politicians & "moderates" who counsel transgender people to achieve equality by assimilation are not counseling wisdom, but are "… the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress"
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
"We must come to see that, as the federal courts have consistently affirmed, it is wrong to urge an individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest may precipitate violence."
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