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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

Angela Davis

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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Body Female Planet Women Rights
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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Convert Danger Design Each Other Human Jail Obedient Population Prison Zoo
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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Actual Hope Justice Struggle Work
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Commitment Life Lifetime Onself Revolution Serious Struggle
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Assure Fight Justice
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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Capital Global Prison Problem Produce Racism Relieve Responsiblity Serious Society
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Death Deep Freedom Road Stalk
In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Enough Feminism Racism Society
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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Color Education Institution People Poor Prison Racism
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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Hide Perhaps Phenomena Racism Terrible
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
ANGELA DAVIS

Grasp Radical Root
Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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Development Perhaps Racism Vision Women
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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Climb Interest Learning Particular Process Women Empowerment
No 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.
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Agenda Consideration Equality Movement Seek Women
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem

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