Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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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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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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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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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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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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