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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

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
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
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
Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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Color Education Institution People Poor Prison Racism
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Death Deep Freedom Road Stalk
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
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
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’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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Culture Issue People Politics Problem Solution True
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
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
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
Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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Black Lives Matter Color Discrimination Gender Human Racism Sex Skin Stop
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.
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Actual Hope Justice Struggle Work

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