The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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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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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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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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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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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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