Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
ANGELA DAVISIn a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
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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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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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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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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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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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