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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Angela Davis

Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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Development Perhaps Racism Vision Women
You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Criticism Decent Life Live People Want
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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Focus Issue Past Struggle
The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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Climb Interest Learning Particular Process Women Empowerment
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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Hide Perhaps Phenomena Racism Terrible
In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Enough Feminism Racism Society
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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Increase Pay Profit Racism Wealth Weapon
Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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Actual Hope Justice Struggle Work
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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Acceptance Change Entrepreneur Hustle Inspirational
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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Convert Danger Design Each Other Human Jail Obedient Population Prison Zoo
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
ANGELA DAVIS

Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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Action Appearance Feminism Method Separate Togetherness Urge
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Individual Leadership Myself Particular Power
Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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Equality Issue Men Pay Wages Women Women Empowerment Work

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