The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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