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.
ANGELA DAVISI 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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