Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
ANGELA DAVISI 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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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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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 am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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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 have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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