Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
ANGELA DAVISThe idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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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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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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