Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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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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Revolution 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.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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 have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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