It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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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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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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