Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
ANGELA DAVISRadical simply means “grasping things at the root.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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