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.
ANGELA DAVISI never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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