The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
ANGELA DAVISBlack women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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