Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
ANGELA DAVISDiscrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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 have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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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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