You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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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