The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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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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 am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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