If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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 think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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 know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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 am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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