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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
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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Children Development Discipline Intellectual Knowledge Prison School Security Value
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
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
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
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
Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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Development Perhaps Racism Vision Women
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
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Existence Human Being Wisdom
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
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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Acceptance Diversity Hard Time Justice Strategy Synonym
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
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
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
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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Action Black Lives Matter Direction Mislead Racism

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