History always seems to repeat itself.
ANGELA DAVISWhat this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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