Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
ANGELA DAVISWhat this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I 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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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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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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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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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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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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