Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
ANGELA DAVISWe have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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 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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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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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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