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.
ANGELA DAVIS
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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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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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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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