We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVISJails 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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 think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
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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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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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