I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
ANGELA DAVISRacism 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.
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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
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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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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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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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