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.
ANGELA DAVISI think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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