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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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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
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 in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Black Lives Matter Community Encouragement Radical
If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Feminism Morning Night
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
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
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
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
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
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Grasp Radical Root
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
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Finding Hope Optimism
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Civil Decision Justice Rights
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
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem

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