You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
ANGELA DAVISHuman beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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