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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.

Angela Davis

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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Convert Danger Design Each Other Human Jail Obedient Population Prison Zoo
I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Abolish Function Prison Social Suggestion
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
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Grasp Radical Root
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
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
It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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Culture Issue People Politics Problem Solution True
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
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public 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
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison Problem Response Social
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Country Need Politics Unemployment
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
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism

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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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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