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29 Angela Davis Quotes & Sayings
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29 Angela Davis Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 26 January 1944 |
Activist
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Philosopher
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Academic
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Feminist
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Author
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I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
Angela Davis
A feminist
I believe
Inhabiting contractions
Productive
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
Angela Davis
Essential
Resist
The depiction
History
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
Angela Davis
Revolution
Serious thing
Revolutionary life
Commits oneself
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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.
Angela Davis
The process
Empowerment
Simplistically defined
In accordance
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
Angela Davis
Never assured
Justice
A fight
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
Angela Davis
Hard time
Accepting diversity
Synonym
For justice
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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?
Angela Davis
The idea
Freedom
Is inspiring
Are free
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We must always attempt to lift as we climb.
Angela Davis
Must always
Attempt
To lift
We climb
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
Angela Davis
Justice
Individual
Can't decide
Civil rights
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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.
Angela Davis
When children
Attend schools
Greater value
On discipline
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change,I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
Angela Davis
No longer
Accepting
The things
Cannot change
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
Angela Davis
We live
A society
Imposed forgetfulness
That depends
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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.
Angela Davis
To act
Were possible
Radically transform
The world
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Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
Angela Davis
Great deal
Progress
Have laws
Segregate
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
Angela Davis
Never saw
An individual
Any particular
Leadership powers
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
Angela Davis
Get depressed
Sometimes
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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
Angela Davis
Different today
The lack
Political connection
Black
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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.
Angela Davis
The realm
Cultural politics
Young people
Work through
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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
Angela Davis
Racism
A weapon
The wealthy
To increase
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Angela Davis
I decided
Teach
I think
Any person
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Angela Davis
To understand
Society functions
Relationship between
Men
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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
Angela Davis
For slavery
Death penalty
Been abolished
A haven
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We know
The road
Freedom
Always been
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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.
Angela Davis
Poor people
Color
Be found
In prison
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Angela Davis
This country
Needs
Unemployed politicians
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Angela Davis
Racism
More clandestine
More hidden
Phenomenon
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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Angela Davis
The importance
Doing activist
Give back
Consider yourself
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Angela Davis
We have
Talk about
Liberating minds
Society
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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.
Angela Davis
Black woman
My politics
Political affiliation
Bound up
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Angela Davis Quotes & Sayings