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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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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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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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