I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
ANGELA DAVISYou have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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