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“His childhood instilled in him a dislike of religious dogma and sexual prudery as well as a deep class-consciousness alongside his ambition to transcend his meager beginning, Science would become his religion”
― Sandra Eder, How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea

“To engage in activism that envisions alternatives ways of organizing society and alternative ways of being is to risk membership in society, a sense of belonging, however partial it may be. Activism can make us vulnerable because it is so obviously about wanting something beyond what is, and to have a political desire often is construed as wanting too much.”
― Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS

“An easy and even a pleasant task is it to reduce human problems to numerical figures in black and white on charts and graphs, an infinitely difficult one is it to suggest concrete solutions, or to extend true charity in individual lives. Yet life can only be lived in the individual; almost invariably the individual refuses to conform to the theories and the classifications of the statistician.”
― Margaret Sanger, Motherhood in Bondage

“If anyone ever tells you that they have no choice but to compromise, remember this. They are afraid.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Monster Baru Cormorant