Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
ANGELA DAVISIn a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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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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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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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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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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