Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
ANGELA DAVISJustice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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