Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
ANGELA DAVIS
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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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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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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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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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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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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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