I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
ANGELA DAVISIt is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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 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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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