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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.

Angela Davis

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
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
The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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Attempt Campaign Death Participation Penalty Powerful
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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Action Black Lives Matter Direction Mislead Racism
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
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Country Need Politics Unemployment
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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Country Participation People Politics Racism Struggle World
Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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Consent Consideration Feminism Guy Understand
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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Function Men Relationship Society Understand Women
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
It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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Body Female Planet Women Rights
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
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
Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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Capital Global Prison Problem Produce Racism Relieve Responsiblity Serious Society
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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Abolish Amendment Constitution Convinction Country Crime Slave

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