I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
ANGELA DAVISIn a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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 live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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