Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
ANGELA DAVISWe have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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