You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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 decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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