We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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’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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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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