Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
ANGELA DAVISIt is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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