We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVISAs 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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