Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
ANGELA DAVISNo march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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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 have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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