You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
ANGELA DAVISWalls turned sideways are bridges.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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 we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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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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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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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 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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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