The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
ANGELA DAVISHuman beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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Anyway 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.
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