Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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 never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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