The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
ANGELA DAVISRadical simply means “grasping things at the root.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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