When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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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 is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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