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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Angela Davis

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison Problem Response Social
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
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Grasp Radical Root
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
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 live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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Art Assistance Live People Progress Work
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
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
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
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
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
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Assure Fight Justice
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

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