The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
ANGELA DAVIS
I 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 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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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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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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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.
ANGELA DAVIS