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 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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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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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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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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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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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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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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