Born in Flames (1983)

Pat Murphy: Newspaper Editor

Quotes 

• Newspaper Editor : We regret that many of the construction and steel workers laid off in the past few weeks have been the women - hired only last year. The industries been overburdened recently by the enormous number of minority workers who are applying for a limited number of jobs.

• Newspaper Editor : Any move towards separatism - the demand for equal rights for one group alone - hurts our struggle for the equal advancement of all parts of society.

• Newspaper Editor : The government has betrayed women. Look at the reality of your lives. We live in a fake socialist state. One which exists in name only. The government thinks that socialism was instituted ten years ago, after the war of liberation. It denies the very basis of true socialism - which is constant struggle and change.

• Newspaper Editor : There can be no true socialism until we are all represented in government. We demand a quota system which is truly expressive of our numbers. And we will not stop fighting until we get proportional representation in government.

• Newspaper Editor : Decades of women's work for socialism, for freedom of choice, equality of opportunity, is being swept away. Once again, we are placed outside of politics. It isn't only women who will suffer. You know the way this pattern continues. Blacks, Latins, all ethnic and social groups will suffer as the old sex, race, and class divisions reemerge.