I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
ANGELA DAVISHuman beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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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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