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.
ANGELA DAVISRevolution 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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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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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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