I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
ANGELA DAVISI think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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 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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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