I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
ANGELA DAVIS
It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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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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I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
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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 have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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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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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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