I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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 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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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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