What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
ANGELA DAVISYou can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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.
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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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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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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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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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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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