I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
ANGELA DAVISI 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.
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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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.
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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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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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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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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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