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.
ANGELA DAVIS
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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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