I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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 have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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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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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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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 should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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