I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
ANGELA DAVISWe are never assured of justice without a fight.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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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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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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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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