It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
ANGELA DAVISI never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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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 campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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