If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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