If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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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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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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