It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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 am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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