You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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