I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
ANGELA DAVISJustice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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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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