What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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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?
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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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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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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