Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
ANGELA DAVISWhen 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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 are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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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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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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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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