We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
ANGELA DAVIS
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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
ANGELA DAVIS