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.
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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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