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Angela Davis

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
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison Problem Response Social
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
Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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Black Lives Matter Color Discrimination Gender Human Racism Sex Skin Stop
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Country Need Politics Unemployment
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’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Abolish Function Prison Social Suggestion
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
You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Criticism Decent Life Live People Want
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 is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
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
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
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

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.

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