Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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