Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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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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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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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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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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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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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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