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

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Imprisonment is increasingly used as a strategy of deflection of the underlying social problems — racism, poverty, unemployment, lack of education, and so on. — Angela Davis

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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross-racial organizing. — Angela Davis

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I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. ― Brian Selznick

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I think the quest for civil rights for migrants and refugees is one of the most important issues in the world right now. — Angela Davis

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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

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There will be no prison which can hold our movement down. - Huey Newton

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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. — Angela Davis

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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. — Angela Davis

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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

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