If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
ANGELA DAVISWhen 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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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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