The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
ANGELA DAVISWe should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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