We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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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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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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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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