History always seems to repeat itself.
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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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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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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.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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