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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.

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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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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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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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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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