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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.

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
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
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall
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
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
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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Act Radical Time Transformation World
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 are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Assure Fight Justice
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Existence Human Being Wisdom
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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Abolish Amendment Constitution Convinction Country Crime Slave
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
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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Convert Danger Design Each Other Human Jail Obedient Population Prison Zoo
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
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
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
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk

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