If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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 are never assured of justice without a fight.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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