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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.

Angela Davis

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
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
ANGELA DAVIS

Grasp Radical Root
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
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
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
Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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Black Lives Matter Color Discrimination Gender Human Racism Sex Skin Stop
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
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
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
History always seems to repeat itself.
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History One Liner Past Repeat
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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Act Radical Time Transformation World
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
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
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
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
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

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