The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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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’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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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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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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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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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