Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
ANGELA DAVISWe live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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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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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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