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.
ANGELA DAVISIt is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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