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Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

  • ... an assumption deeply integral to capitalism has been absorbed by all of us, since it is reflected in so much of what we see. I have called this the Scarcity Theory, not enough to go around: not enough love, not enough time, not enough appointments at the foodstamps office, not enough food stamps, not enough money, not enough seats on the subway. It's pervasive. We learn mistrust of each other, bone deep: everything is skin off somebody's nose.

    • Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz,
    • "To Be a Radical Jew in the Late Twentieth Century," in Christian McEwen and Sue O'Sullivan, eds., Out the Other Side ()
  • let my people in / to history.

    • Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz,
    • "Jerusalem Shadow," in Deborah Keenan and Roseann Lloyd, eds., Looking for Home ()
  • Education with a heart is a blessing.

    • Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz,
    • "How Did 'Correct' Become a Dirty Word? Theory and Practice for a Social Justice," Transformations ()

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, U.S. writer, poet, activist, academic

(1945)