Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
ANGELA DAVISHistory always seems to repeat itself.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Feminism 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.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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