Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
ANGELA DAVISSometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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 have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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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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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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