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.
ANGELA DAVISRadical simply means “grasping things at the root.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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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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