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.
ANGELA DAVISWell for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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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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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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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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