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.
ANGELA DAVISI think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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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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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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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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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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