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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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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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Abolish Amendment Constitution Convinction Country Crime Slave
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
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
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
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
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
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
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Grasp Radical Root
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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Focus Issue Past Struggle
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Assure Fight Justice
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
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
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Country Need Politics Unemployment
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
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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Action Black Lives Matter Direction Mislead Racism
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
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
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Civil Decision Justice Rights
When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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Children Development Discipline Intellectual Knowledge Prison School Security Value
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
The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Danger Education Mind Mouth Pride Weapon Women Power
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
Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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Equality Issue Men Pay Wages Women Women Empowerment Work
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
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Death Deep Freedom Road Stalk
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

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