I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
ANGELA DAVISThe 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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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.
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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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