You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
ANGELA DAVISPrisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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