The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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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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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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