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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

Angela Davis

Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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Color Education Institution People Poor Prison Racism
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
History always seems to repeat itself.
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History One Liner Past Repeat
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
Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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Art Assistance Live People Progress Work
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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Food Freedom Ideas Politics Sense Starve
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
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
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
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
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
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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Commitment Life Lifetime Onself Revolution Serious Struggle
It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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Culture Issue People Politics Problem Solution True
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison Problem Response Social
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature

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