Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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 have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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