Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
ANGELA DAVISIt is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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