I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
ANGELA DAVISI’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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