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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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