We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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 decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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