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.
ANGELA DAVISRevolution 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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