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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

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

Finding Hope Optimism
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Individual Leadership Myself Particular Power
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
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Black Lives Matter Community Encouragement Radical
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
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
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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Acticity Decision Involvement Person Philosophy Study Teaching
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

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