You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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