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Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Angela Davis

The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Danger Education Mind Mouth Pride Weapon Women Power
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison Problem Response Social
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
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
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
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
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.
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Government Movement Power Regard Thinking
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
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
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Grasp Radical Root
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
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.
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Commitment Life Lifetime Onself Revolution Serious Struggle
If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
ANGELA DAVIS

Feminism Morning Night
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
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
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

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

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