I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
ANGELA DAVISEqual pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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 we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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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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Feminism 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.
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