The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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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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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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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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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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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