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.
ANGELA DAVISProgressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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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 am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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