In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
ANGELA DAVISI am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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?
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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