We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
ANGELA DAVISI think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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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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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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