If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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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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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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