It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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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 think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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