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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.

Angela Davis

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
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
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
ANGELA DAVIS

Country Participation People Politics Racism Struggle World
In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
ANGELA DAVIS

Enough Feminism Racism Society
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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Focus Issue Past Struggle
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Bridge One Liner Wall
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Action Appearance Feminism Method Separate Togetherness Urge
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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Acceptance Diversity Hard Time Justice Strategy Synonym
I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Abolish Function Prison Social Suggestion
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVIS

Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
ANGELA DAVIS

Consent Consideration Feminism Guy Understand
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
ANGELA DAVIS

Grasp Radical Root
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
ANGELA DAVIS

Finding Hope Optimism
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
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 DAVIS

Convert Danger Design Each Other Human Jail Obedient Population Prison Zoo
If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
ANGELA DAVIS

Feminism Morning Night

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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