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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.

Angela Davis

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
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Abolish Function Prison Social Suggestion
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
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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Body Female Planet Women Rights
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison Problem Response Social
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
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
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Death Deep Freedom Road Stalk
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
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Existence Human Being Wisdom
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 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
You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Criticism Decent Life Live People Want
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
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

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