I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
ANGELA DAVISAs 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.
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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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