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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.

Angela Davis

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
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
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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Country Participation People Politics Racism Struggle World
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
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Existence Human Being Wisdom
Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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Color Education Institution People Poor Prison Racism
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 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
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
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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Abolish Amendment Constitution Convinction Country Crime Slave
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Absolute Alternative Intellectual Necessity Optimistic Thinking
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
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
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
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

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