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 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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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