I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
ANGELA DAVISI think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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