Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
ANGELA DAVISFeminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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