I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
ANGELA DAVISJustice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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