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Angela Davis

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
ANGELA DAVIS

Individual Leadership Myself Particular Power
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Action Appearance Feminism Method Separate Togetherness Urge
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Absolute Alternative Intellectual Necessity Optimistic Thinking
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
ANGELA DAVIS

Acticity Decision Involvement Person Philosophy Study Teaching
We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
ANGELA DAVIS

Door Hope Jail Open Seek
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVIS

Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
ANGELA DAVIS

Focus Issue Past Struggle
Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
ANGELA DAVIS

Equality Issue Men Pay Wages Women Women Empowerment Work
It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
ANGELA DAVIS

Culture Issue People Politics Problem Solution True
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
ANGELA DAVIS

Action Black Lives Matter Direction Mislead Racism
Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
ANGELA DAVIS

Actual Hope Justice Struggle Work
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
ANGELA DAVIS

Assure Fight Justice
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
ANGELA DAVIS

Depend Live Public Society
Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
ANGELA DAVIS

Color Education Institution People Poor Prison Racism
You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
ANGELA DAVIS

Criticism Decent Life Live People Want
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
ANGELA DAVIS

Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem

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