I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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 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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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 never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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