History always seems to repeat itself.
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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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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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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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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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