I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
ANGELA DAVISI never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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