The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
ANGELA DAVISNo march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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