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.
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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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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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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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