Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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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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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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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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Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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