Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
ANGELA DAVISHuman beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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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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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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