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.
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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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 know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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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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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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