We are never assured of justice without a fight.
ANGELA DAVISRadical simply means “grasping things at the root.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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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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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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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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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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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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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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