I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
ANGELA DAVISIf we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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’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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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