In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
ANGELA DAVIS
I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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.
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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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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.
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