Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
ANGELA DAVISJustice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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 know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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