It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
ANGELA DAVISSometimes 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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