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.
ANGELA DAVISWalls turned sideways are bridges.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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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 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 am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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