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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.

Angela Davis

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
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
ANGELA DAVIS

Function Men Relationship Society Understand Women
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
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
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVIS

Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
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
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
ANGELA DAVIS

Assure Fight Justice
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
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
No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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Agenda Consideration Equality Movement Seek Women
History always seems to repeat itself.
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History One Liner Past Repeat
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
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison Problem Response Social
Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
ANGELA DAVIS

Equality Issue Men Pay Wages Women Women Empowerment Work

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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