You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
ANGELA DAVIS
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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Racism, 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.
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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 never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social 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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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
ANGELA DAVIS