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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.

Angela Davis

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
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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Climb Interest Learning Particular Process Women Empowerment
Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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Action Appearance Feminism Method Separate Togetherness Urge
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
No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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Agenda Consideration Equality Movement Seek Women
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Death Deep Freedom Road Stalk
If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Feminism Morning Night
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
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
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
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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Acticity Decision Involvement Person Philosophy Study Teaching
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Country Need Politics Unemployment
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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Attempt Campaign Death Participation Penalty Powerful
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
History always seems to repeat itself.
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History One Liner Past Repeat

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.

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