We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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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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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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