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

Angela Davis

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
ANGELA DAVIS

Feminism Morning Night
In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Enough Feminism Racism Society
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
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
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
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
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
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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Focus Issue Past Struggle
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
ANGELA DAVIS

Finding Hope Optimism
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Government Movement Power Regard Thinking
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 live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
ANGELA DAVIS

Depend Live Public Society
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
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
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
We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Door Hope Jail Open Seek

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

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