It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
ANGELA DAVISRacism 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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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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