Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
ANGELA DAVISIf we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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 should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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.
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