Angela Davis

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. ↗

— Angela Davis

#liberating #minds #society #talk #well

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

#bring #first #increase #less #paying

Radical simply means "grasping things at the root." ↗

— Angela Davis

#means #radical #root #simply #things

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. ↗

— Angela Davis

#any #between #functions #how #men

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. ↗

— Angela Davis

#more #needs #politicians #unemployed

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively. ↗

— Angela Davis

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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. ↗

— Angela Davis

#been #death #freedom #know #road

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

#became #been #death #death penalty #had

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

#ever #far #hidden #kind #more

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. ↗

— Angela Davis

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