We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
ANGELA DAVISThe only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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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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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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