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.
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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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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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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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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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’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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