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.
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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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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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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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 live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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