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.
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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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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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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.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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