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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.

Angela Davis

We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Assure Fight Justice
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
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Grasp Radical Root
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
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
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
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
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
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
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
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
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Existence Human Being Wisdom
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
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Individual Leadership Myself Particular Power
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison Problem Response Social
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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Absolute Alternative Intellectual Necessity Optimistic Thinking
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

Climb Interest Learning Particular Process Women Empowerment
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

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