Angela Davis on development
Angela Davis56 quotes“Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.”
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
Angela DavisAngela Davis 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.
Angela DavisAngela Davis History always seems to repeat itself.
Angela DavisAngela Davis 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.
Angela DavisAngela Davis It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
Angela DavisAngela Davis Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
Angela DavisAngela Davis The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
Angela DavisAngela Davis I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
Angela DavisAngela Davis The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
Angela DavisAngela Davis Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
Angela DavisAngela Davis Racism 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.
Angela DavisAngela Davis To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Angela DavisAngela Davis Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
Angela DavisAngela Davis The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
Angela DavisAngela Davis I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Angela DavisAngela Davis In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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