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.
ANGELA DAVISWhen 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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 think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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.
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men 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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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