Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
ANGELA DAVISWe are never assured of justice without a fight.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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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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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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