Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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 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.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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