The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
ANGELA DAVISIt’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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 live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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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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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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