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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.

Angela Davis

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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Increase Pay Profit Racism Wealth Weapon
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
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Assure Fight Justice
In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Enough Feminism Racism Society
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
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
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
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
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 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
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison Problem Response Social
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Civil Decision Justice Rights
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
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
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

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