I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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 should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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