• If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

  Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 142

  Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil 1934-1992
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. oppressions
2. directed
3. external
4. change
5. enough

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If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough. by : Audre Lorde

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