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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

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Death Deep Freedom Road Stalk
We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Door Hope Jail Open Seek
When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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Children Development Discipline Intellectual Knowledge Prison School Security Value
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
Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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Consent Consideration Feminism Guy Understand
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
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
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
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
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
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 have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
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
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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?
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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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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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