I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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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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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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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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