We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVISThe 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?
More Angela Davis Quotes
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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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 think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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.
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