If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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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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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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