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.
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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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 think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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