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Angela Davis

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
You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Criticism Decent Life Live People Want
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
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
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
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
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Grasp Radical Root
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Government Movement Power Regard Thinking
Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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Art Assistance Live People Progress Work
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.
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Increase Pay Profit Racism Wealth Weapon
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
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Black Lives Matter Community Encouragement Radical
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison Problem Response Social
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
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

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