I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
ANGELA DAVISWe have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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