Top 24 Angela Y. Davis Quotes
#1. The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.
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#2. 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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#3. We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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#4. I would say that as our struggles mature, they produce new ideas, new issues, and new terrains on which we engage in the quest for freedom. Like Nelson Mandela, we must be willing to embrace the long walk toward freedom.
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#5. If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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#6. When Obama was elected president, a prisoner said one black man in the White House doesn't make up for one million black men in the Big House.
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#7. [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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#8. We must begin to create a revolutionary, multiracial women's movement that seriously addresses the main issues affecting poor and working-class women.
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#10. the struggle for an abolitionist democracy is aspiring to create the institutions that will truly allow for a democratic society. What
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#11. This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal".
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#12. I try never to take myself for granted as somebody who should be out there speaking. Rather, I'm doing it only because I feel there's something important that needs to be conveyed.
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#13. Judged by the evolving nineteenth-century ideology of femininity, which emphasized women's roles as nurturing mothers and gentle companions and housekeepers for their husbands, Black women were practically anomalies. Though
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#14. But there's a message there for everyone and it is that people can unite, that democracy from below can challenge oligarchy, that imprisoned migrants can be freed, that fascism can be overcome, and that equality is emancipatory. The
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#15. If Black people had simply accepted a status of economic and political inferiority, the mob murders would probably have subsided. But because vast numbers of ex-slaves refused to discard their dreams of progress, more than ten thousand lynchings occurred during the three decades following the war.
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#16. even when police are indicted, we cannot be certain that change is on the agenda. There
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#17. We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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#18. Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.
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#19. I feel that if we don't take seriously the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must be an identifiable racist who is the perpetrator, then we won't ever succeed in eradicating racism.
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#20. Anyway I don't think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
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#21. 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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#22. If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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#23. Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation
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#24. I often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach- as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle. That means feminism doesn't belong to anyone in particular
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