Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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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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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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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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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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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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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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