Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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 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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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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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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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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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