Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
ANGELA DAVISHuman beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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