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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

Angela Davis

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
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
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
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Civil Decision Justice Rights
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall
The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
ANGELA DAVIS

Climb Interest Learning Particular Process Women Empowerment
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Country Need Politics Unemployment
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
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
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
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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
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
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
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
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

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