Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
ANGELA DAVISI decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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