I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
ANGELA DAVISPrisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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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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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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