Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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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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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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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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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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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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