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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"If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions."

- Angela Davis

Awareness

"In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist."

- Angela Davis

Awareness

"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."

- Angela Davis

Awareness

"I think there is a connection between, and I can’t go further than this, the way we treat animals and the way we treat people who are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Look at the ways in which people who commit such violence on other human beings have often learned how to enjoy that by enacting violence on animals."

- Angela Davis

Compassion

"We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be."

- Angela Davis

Hope

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"Love has the power to transform even the most hideous of creatures."

- Beauty and the Beast

Transformation

"Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

Transformation

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Transformation

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

Transformation

"Today is not just Tuesday, it is Transformation Tuesday. That means that success does not just come to you, you have to go out and get it. So what are you waiting for?"

Transformation