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.
ANGELA DAVISIt is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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 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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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