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 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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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 think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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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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