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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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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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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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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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