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Angela Davis

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
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
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
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
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Country Need Politics Unemployment
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Existence Human Being Wisdom
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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Hide Perhaps Phenomena Racism Terrible
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
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall
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.
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Absolute Alternative Intellectual Necessity Optimistic Thinking
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
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
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
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
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism

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