I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
ANGELA DAVISPoor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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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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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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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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 have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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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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