Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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