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.
ANGELA DAVISWalls turned sideways are bridges.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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