Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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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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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 think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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