Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
ANGELA DAVISYou can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
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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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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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 have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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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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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