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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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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 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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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