The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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