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.
ANGELA DAVISThe only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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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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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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