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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.

Angela Davis

We are never assured of justice without a fight.
ANGELA DAVIS

Assure Fight Justice
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 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
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
ANGELA DAVIS

Essential History Individual Work
Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
ANGELA DAVIS

Black Lives Matter Color Discrimination Gender Human Racism Sex Skin Stop
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
ANGELA DAVIS

Prison Problem Response Social
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
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
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
ANGELA DAVIS

Depend Live Public Society
If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
ANGELA DAVIS

Feminism Morning Night
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
ANGELA DAVIS

Act Radical Time Transformation World
I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
ANGELA DAVIS

Absolute Alternative Intellectual Necessity Optimistic Thinking
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
We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Door Hope Jail Open Seek
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
ANGELA DAVIS

Grasp Radical Root
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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