Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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