I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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