Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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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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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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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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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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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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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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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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