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

Angela Davis

The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Danger Education Mind Mouth Pride Weapon Women Power
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Death Deep Freedom Road Stalk
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
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
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
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
Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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Consent Consideration Feminism Guy Understand
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall
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
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 never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Individual Leadership Myself Particular Power
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
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
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism

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