Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
ANGELA DAVISI think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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 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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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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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 in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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