I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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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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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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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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