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.
ANGELA DAVISWe know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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