The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
ANGELA DAVISWalls turned sideways are bridges.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
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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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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