The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
ANGELA DAVISIn a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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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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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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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