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Angela Davis

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem
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
I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Abolish Function Prison Social Suggestion
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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Function Men Relationship Society Understand Women
No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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Agenda Consideration Equality Movement Seek Women
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
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
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
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Civil Decision Justice Rights
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
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
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
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
The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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Attempt Campaign Death Participation Penalty Powerful

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