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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

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
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Convert Danger Design Each Other Human Jail Obedient Population Prison Zoo
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
ANGELA DAVIS

Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
ANGELA DAVIS

Focus Issue Past Struggle
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
ANGELA DAVIS

Assure Fight Justice
Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
ANGELA DAVIS

Consent Consideration Feminism Guy Understand
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
ANGELA DAVIS

Grasp Radical Root
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
ANGELA DAVIS

Increase Pay Profit Racism Wealth Weapon
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?
ANGELA DAVIS

Food Freedom Ideas Politics Sense Starve
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

Act Radical Time Transformation World
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
ANGELA DAVIS

Black Lives Matter Community Encouragement Radical
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
ANGELA DAVIS

Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
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
Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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Capital Global Prison Problem Produce Racism Relieve Responsiblity Serious Society
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Attempt Campaign Death Participation Penalty Powerful
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

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