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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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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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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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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