The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
ANGELA DAVISI have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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