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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.

Angela Davis

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
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
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
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
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
I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Abolish Function Prison Social Suggestion
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
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Existence Human Being Wisdom
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
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
ANGELA DAVIS

Focus Issue Past Struggle
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
ANGELA DAVIS

Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Actual Hope Justice Struggle Work
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature

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