The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
ANGELA DAVISImprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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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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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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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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