If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
ANGELA DAVISWell for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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