If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
ANGELA DAVISFeminism 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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