Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
ANGELA DAVISWe know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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