The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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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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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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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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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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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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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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