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.
ANGELA DAVISIt is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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 decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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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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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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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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 have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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