Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
ANGELA DAVISThe process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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