I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
ANGELA DAVISI never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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