It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
ANGELA DAVISWalls turned sideways are bridges.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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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 am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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