Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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 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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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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