We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVISIf they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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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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