Dorinda Moreno

Dorinda Moreno is a Chicana activist, feminist and writer.

Quotes

"Un Paso Adelante/One Step Forward" (1980)

La Razon Mestiza/Union Wage, June 20-22, 1980: pp1-3. Anthologized in Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings

• Conference after conference, issue after issue, "minority" women have stated: "We are a majority in the world."

• Union Wage is a newspaper that has a proven track record in dealing with the issues of working women.

• We are living in a world that moves to extinction at a rapid pace, faster seemingly than we are able to organize against such self-destructive forces as the arms race. The threat of oncoming wars, possibly in Iran, the conflict in Afghanistan, and the U.S. financed intervention in Central America, etc., are a constant threat against which we need to mobilize our energies. Yet we are kept apart for crumbs.

• In general, Third World activists are no longer preoccupied with color, sex, or preference. Success for all means to live in a healthy environment, creating peaceful co-existence. Hunger, napalm, and discrimination know no sexual boundaries. Colonization and racism are sure vehicles for world destruction, promoting the atmosphere that will most assuredly bring a violent end to humankind.

• a respectful exchange of ideas and energies, a collective leadership based on principles of unity is the only bridge which between white and Third World, grassroots and the professional, and between straight and gay women and men.

• This education, these dialogues, will inevitably bring conflict which can be the basis of later unified strength. But once the issues become clearer, the solutions become easier.