I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
ANGELA DAVISWell for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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 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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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