Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
ANGELA DAVISRacism 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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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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 are never assured of justice without a fight.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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