Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
ANGELA DAVISWhat this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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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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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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