We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
ANGELA DAVISIt’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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I 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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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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