Week 1: where are we?

"We must begin to understand that a revolution entails not only the willingness to lay our lives on the firing line and get killed. In some ways, this is an easy commitment to make. To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to day life patterns.”

—Frances Beal, "Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female" (1970)

"In the beginning, all women had to prove that we could be equal to men in armed struggle. So we wanted to be like men...I no longer think it's necessary to prove ourselves as women by imitating men. I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother...Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life."

—Leila Khaled