We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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