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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

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Country Need Politics Unemployment
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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Act Radical Time Transformation World
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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Actual Hope Justice Struggle Work
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
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall
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
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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Food Freedom Ideas Politics Sense Starve
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
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
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
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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Abolish Amendment Constitution Convinction Country Crime Slave
In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Enough Feminism Racism Society
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem
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

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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