I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
ANGELA DAVISYou have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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