I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
ANGELA DAVISAnyway 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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