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 DAVISThe process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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 am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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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 never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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