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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.

Angela Davis

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison Problem Response Social
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
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
ANGELA DAVIS

Essential History Individual Work
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
In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
ANGELA DAVIS

Enough Feminism Racism Society
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
ANGELA DAVIS

Finding Hope Optimism
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
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVIS

Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
ANGELA DAVIS

Art Assistance Live People Progress Work
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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Acticity Decision Involvement Person Philosophy Study Teaching
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
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Actual Hope Justice Struggle Work
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
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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Body Female Planet Women Rights
Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
ANGELA DAVIS

Equality Issue Men Pay Wages Women Women Empowerment Work
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
ANGELA DAVIS

Action Black Lives Matter Direction Mislead Racism

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