Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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