Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
ANGELA DAVISIn a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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 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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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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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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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