Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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