What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
ANGELA DAVISSometimes 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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