No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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