You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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