Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
ANGELA DAVISWell of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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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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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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