I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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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 never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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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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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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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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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 should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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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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