We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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 are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I 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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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