History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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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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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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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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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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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