I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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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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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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