We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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