You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
ANGELA DAVISPoor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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