History always seems to repeat itself.
ANGELA DAVISI am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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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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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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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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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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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