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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.

Angela Davis

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
ANGELA DAVIS

Depend Live Public Society
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
ANGELA DAVIS

Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
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
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
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall
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
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
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
Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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Equality Issue Men Pay Wages Women Women Empowerment Work
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Individual Leadership Myself Particular Power
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
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 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
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

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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