In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
ANGELA DAVISFeminism 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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