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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.

Angela Davis

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
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.
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Actual Hope Justice Struggle Work
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
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
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
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem
When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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Children Development Discipline Intellectual Knowledge Prison School Security Value
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
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
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
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
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
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
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

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