To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
ANGELA DAVISProgressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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