We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
ANGELA DAVISPrison 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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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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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The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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