It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
ANGELA DAVISRadical simply means “grasping things at the root.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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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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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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