I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
ANGELA DAVISWhat this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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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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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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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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