You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
ANGELA DAVISRadical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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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.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social 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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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