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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?

Angela Davis

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Grasp Radical Root
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
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
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 live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
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
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
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Assure Fight Justice
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall
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
Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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Capital Global Prison Problem Produce Racism Relieve Responsiblity Serious Society
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Individual Leadership Myself Particular Power
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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Attempt Campaign Death Participation Penalty Powerful
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
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

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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