I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
ANGELA DAVISWe are never assured of justice without a fight.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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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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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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