You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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