Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape."
Andrea Dworkin
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"The truth is like a lion; you do not have to defend it."
Andrea Dworkin
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"The most dangerous thing a woman can do is tell the truth."
Andrea Dworkin
"Truth requires courage to speak and hear."
Black Panther Party
"Truth costs, but lies cost more in the long run."
Black Panther Party
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"Pregnancy is barbaric."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Speak truth even when your voice shakes."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Truth-telling is a revolutionary act in a system built on lies."
Assata Shakur
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"The time is always right to do what is right."
John Lewis
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"The time comes when silence becomes betrayal."
John Lewis
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"Truth requires us to unlearn the comfortable lies we inherited."
Shulamith Firestone
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"We must begin to tell ourselves the truth about ourselves, however painful that truth might be."
Stokely Carmichael
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"Truth-telling is an act of resistance."
Angela Y. Davis
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"The truth about systems of oppression is often hidden from those benefiting from them."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Truth-telling requires us to examine our own role in systems of oppression."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Language shapes reality; naming abuse is the first act of resistance."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Naming the problem is the first step toward solving it."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Truth-telling is an act of courage in a world built on lies."
Andrea Dworkin
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"The body remembers what the mind tries to forget."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Truth demands we see the world without comforting delusions."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Language shapes thought; we must reclaim our words."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Women have very little idea of how much men hate them."
Germaine Greer
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"A woman is not written in the same language as a man."
Germaine Greer
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"The tyranny of language is that it can only express what the speaker wants to express."
Germaine Greer
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"Pregnancy is barbaric."
Germaine Greer
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"The female is more intelligent; the male is more aggressive."
Germaine Greer
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"Charm is a form of manipulation."
Germaine Greer
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"The truth will set you free."
Germaine Greer
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"We cannot solve a problem we refuse to acknowledge exists in the first place."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"We underestimate the power of naming things correctly; language is a tool of both oppression and liberation."
Kimberlé Crenshaw