Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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No 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.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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