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.
ANGELA DAVISDiscrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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