Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
ANGELA DAVISRacism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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?
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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.
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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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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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