The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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