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 am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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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 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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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