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Angela Davis

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
ANGELA DAVIS

Focus Issue Past Struggle
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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Commitment Life Lifetime Onself Revolution Serious Struggle
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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Food Freedom Ideas Politics Sense Starve
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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Acceptance Diversity Hard Time Justice Strategy Synonym
If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
ANGELA DAVIS

Feminism Morning Night
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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Country Participation People Politics Racism Struggle World
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Individual Leadership Myself Particular Power
Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
ANGELA DAVIS

Art Assistance Live People Progress Work
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVIS

Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
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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Government Movement Power Regard Thinking
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Absolute Alternative Intellectual Necessity Optimistic Thinking
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Depression Human Nature
In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Enough Feminism Racism Society

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