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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

Angela Davis

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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Food Freedom Ideas Politics Sense Starve
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
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Death Deep Freedom Road Stalk
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Individual Leadership Myself Particular Power
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
History always seems to repeat itself.
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History One Liner Past Repeat
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Grasp Radical Root
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual 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 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
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
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender Involvement
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Civil Decision Justice Rights
If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Feminism Morning Night
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
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

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