In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
ANGELA DAVISI’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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