You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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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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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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Anyway 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.
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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 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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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