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

Angela Davis

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
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
Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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Capital Global Prison Problem Produce Racism Relieve Responsiblity Serious Society
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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Action Black Lives Matter Direction Mislead Racism
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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Action Appearance Feminism Method Separate Togetherness Urge
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
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 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
It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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Body Female Planet Women Rights
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
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Civil Decision Justice Rights
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
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 am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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Acceptance Change Entrepreneur Hustle Inspirational

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