We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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