I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
ANGELA DAVISWe know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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 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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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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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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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