What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
ANGELA DAVISWe are never assured of justice without a fight.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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 live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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