Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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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.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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