I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
ANGELA DAVISHuman beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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 is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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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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