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.
ANGELA DAVISConsent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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 think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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