I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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 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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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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 only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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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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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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