What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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 is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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The 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?
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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