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.
ANGELA DAVIS
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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