Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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 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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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