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.
ANGELA DAVISThe process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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