Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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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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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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