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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.

Angela Davis

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
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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Acceptance Change Entrepreneur Hustle Inspirational
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 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
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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Act Radical Time Transformation World
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
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
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
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
ANGELA DAVIS

Finding Hope Optimism
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
If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
ANGELA DAVIS

Feminism Morning Night
We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Door Hope Jail Open Seek
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
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

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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