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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Angela Davis
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Angela Davis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 29
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Birmingham
Alabama
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Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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.
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I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
Angela Davis
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
We must always attempt to lift as we climb
Angela Davis
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
We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.
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Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement.
Angela Davis
Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.
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We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
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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
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
Angela Davis
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.
Angela Davis
Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.
Angela Davis
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
Angela Davis
