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 DAVISI’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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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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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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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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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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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