You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
ANGELA DAVISAnyway 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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