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.
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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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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