It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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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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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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