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.
ANGELA DAVISPrisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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