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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

Angela Davis

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
ANGELA DAVIS

Essential History Individual Work
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
ANGELA DAVIS

Acceptance Diversity Hard Time Justice Strategy Synonym
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Government Movement Power Regard Thinking
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Body Female Planet Women Rights
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
ANGELA DAVIS

Black Lives Matter Community Encouragement Radical
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
ANGELA DAVIS

Assure Fight Justice
Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
ANGELA DAVIS

Development Perhaps Racism Vision Women
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Hide Perhaps Phenomena Racism Terrible
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
ANGELA DAVIS

Commitment Life Lifetime Onself Revolution Serious Struggle
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
ANGELA DAVIS

Country Need Politics Unemployment
If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
ANGELA DAVIS

Feminism Morning Night
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
ANGELA DAVIS

Depend Live Public Society
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
ANGELA DAVIS

Finding Hope Optimism
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Attempt Campaign Death Participation Penalty Powerful
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
ANGELA DAVIS

Civil Decision Justice Rights
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
ANGELA DAVIS

Grasp Radical Root

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