If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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