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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.

Angela Davis

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
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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Government Movement Power Regard Thinking
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Country Need Politics Unemployment
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Grasp Radical Root
I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Abolish Function Prison Social Suggestion
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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Increase Pay Profit Racism Wealth Weapon
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall
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
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 is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
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
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Assure Fight Justice
The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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Climb Interest Learning Particular Process Women Empowerment
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
History always seems to repeat itself.
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History One Liner Past Repeat

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