Quotes by Angela Davis

Angela Davis

Angela Davis

American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author

Lived from: 1944 -

Category: Politics | Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 25 january 1944

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  • We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.
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  • We have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
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  • We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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  • We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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  • We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.
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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.
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  • What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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  • When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.
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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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  • You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
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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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  • 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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