We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
Angela DavisRead
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.
Interpretation
Racism is often subtle and hidden, yet it can be more destructive than ever before.
Angela Davis highlights the insidious nature of racism, suggesting that although it may be less overtly visible in contemporary society, its impact can be profoundly damaging. This observation calls for a deeper awareness and confrontation of racism, rather than a superficial understanding of its manifestations, emphasizing that hidden prejudices can lead to severe consequences for individuals and communities alike.
In practice
In discussions about social justice during a seminar.
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
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.
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'
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.
You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
To survive as a species on this planet, we're going to have to see ourselves as Earthlings.
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