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.
ANGELA DAVISI never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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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 live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
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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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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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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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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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 have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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