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.
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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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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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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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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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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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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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