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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

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 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
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
No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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Agenda Consideration Equality Movement Seek Women
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Individual Leadership Myself Particular Power
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
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.
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Absolute Alternative Intellectual Necessity Optimistic Thinking
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Increase Pay Profit Racism Wealth Weapon
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
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
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
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
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
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall

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