You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. — Angela Davis

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Imprisonment is increasingly used as a strategy of deflection of the underlying social problems — racism, poverty, unemployment, lack of education, and so on. — Angela Davis

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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? — Angela Davis

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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

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Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities. ― Roy T. Bennett

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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross-racial organizing. — Angela Davis

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Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them. ― Steve Maraboli

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For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

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Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible. — Angela Davis

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