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?
ANGELA DAVISWe have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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