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.
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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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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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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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