History always seems to repeat itself.
ANGELA DAVISRacism, 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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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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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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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 never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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