Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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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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