It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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