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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

Angela Davis

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
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
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
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Country Need Politics Unemployment
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
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 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
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
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
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Grasp Radical Root
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
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Civil Decision Justice Rights
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
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
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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Action Black Lives Matter Direction Mislead Racism

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