I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
ANGELA DAVISWhat this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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 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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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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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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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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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