Maria Lugones Quotes on Freedom
Maria Lugones was an Argentine-American philosopher, long associated with Binghamton University, and a foundational figure in decolonial feminism and Latina philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Maria Lugones on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Maria Lugones:
“World-traveling is a skill, and a form of love, exercised by those whom the world does not arrange itself for.”
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Attributed to Maria Lugones:
“Gender, as we know it, is a colonial imposition.”
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Attributed to Maria Lugones:
“Resistance is what survives in the cracks of dominant systems.”
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Attributed to Maria Lugones:
“There are many worlds in any one social space, and the oppressed move between them.”
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“Aristotle makes it clear that the slave can only obey or follow orders, but cannot reason his own syllogism. The master reasons and the slave does. For that reason, it is difficult to imagine the slave after working hours except as an animal: resting, eating, roaming around, copulating. But these are not human acts when performed by the after-hours slave since they are not acts that are the end of practical syllogisms and only these are open to the kind of evaluation that Aristotle offers when he talks of practical wisdom and moral virtue.”
p. 56