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.
ANGELA DAVISI am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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