Everyone is familiar with the slogan "The personal is political" -- not only that what we experience on a personal level has profound political implications, but that our interior lives, our emotional lives are very much informed by ideology. We oftentimes do the work of the state in and through our interior lives. What we often assume belongs most intimately to ourselves and to our emotional life has been produced elsewhere and has been recruited to do the work of racism and repression. Angela Y. Davis
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A quote from a former White House intern.

Source: Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, And The Foundations Of A Movement

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