We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
ANGELA DAVISProgressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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