I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
ANGELA DAVISRacism 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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 in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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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’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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