Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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 think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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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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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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