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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

Angela Davis

We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Assure Fight Justice
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
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
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
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
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
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Civil Decision Justice Rights
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Existence Human Being Wisdom
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
ANGELA DAVIS

Black Lives Matter Community Encouragement Radical
Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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Black Lives Matter Color Discrimination Gender Human Racism Sex Skin Stop
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Country Need Politics Unemployment
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
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
It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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Body Female Planet Women Rights
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

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

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