We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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