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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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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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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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