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Angela Davis

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 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
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
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
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Actual Hope Justice Struggle Work
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
ANGELA DAVIS

Finding Hope Optimism
Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
ANGELA DAVIS

Color Education Institution People Poor Prison Racism
Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
ANGELA DAVIS

Black Lives Matter Color Discrimination Gender Human Racism Sex Skin Stop
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Death Deep Freedom Road Stalk
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
ANGELA DAVIS

Grasp Radical Root
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
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Black Lives Matter Community Encouragement Radical
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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Function Men Relationship Society Understand Women
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature

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