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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

Angela Davis

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
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
History always seems to repeat itself.
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History One Liner Past Repeat
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
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Grasp Radical Root
You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Criticism Decent Life Live People Want
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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Country Participation People Politics Racism Struggle World
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem
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
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
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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Acceptance Change Entrepreneur Hustle Inspirational
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 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
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
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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Action Black Lives Matter Direction Mislead Racism
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

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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