We are never assured of justice without a fight.
ANGELA DAVISWe live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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