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Quote #1253 - #PersonallyPolitical
31 Aug, 2026
PERSONALLY POLITICAL
"One of the first things we discover [in consciousness raising groups of the sixties] is that personal problems are political problems. There are no personal solutions at this time. There is only collective action for a collective solution."
Carol Hanisch
"Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do... In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much."
Timothy Snyder
"Everything is political and the choice to be 'apolitical' is usually just an endorsement of the status quo."
Rebecca Solnit
Everything is political
(not as in electoral politics, but as in
having reverberating political meaning).
Everything is political
because every thought, feeling, and action
is informed by what we believe about the world
and ourselves,
and that has all been bred in a political climate.
Awareness--becoming
awakened, waking up, what's now
disparagingly called 'woke'--
is beginning to understand and appreciate
all that breeding we have internalized
and all those resonances and meanings.
So wanting not to be political
means you don't want to be aware of those things.
Okay.
But at least recognize
that itself displays entitlement,
because there are so many
who do not have that choice.
Shellen Lubin
August 31, 2026
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