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?
ANGELA DAVISWe are never assured of justice without a fight.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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.
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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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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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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 think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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