In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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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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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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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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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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