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.
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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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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