What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
ANGELA DAVISI decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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