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 DAVISNo 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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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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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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