It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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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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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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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