Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
ANGELA DAVISPrisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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 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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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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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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