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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

Angela Davis

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
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
The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Danger Education Mind Mouth Pride Weapon Women Power
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
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
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
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 they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Feminism Morning Night
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Existence Human Being Wisdom
Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
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Government Movement Power Regard Thinking
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
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
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
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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