If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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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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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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