Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
ANGELA DAVIS
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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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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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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