We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
ANGELA DAVISHistory always seems to repeat itself.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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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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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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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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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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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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