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Angela Davis

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
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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Hide Perhaps Phenomena Racism Terrible
The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Danger Education Mind Mouth Pride Weapon Women Power
History always seems to repeat itself.
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History One Liner Past Repeat
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
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
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
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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Government Movement Power Regard Thinking
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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Acceptance Diversity Hard Time Justice Strategy Synonym
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
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Action Appearance Feminism Method Separate Togetherness Urge
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
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
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work

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