Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
ANGELA DAVISThe process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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 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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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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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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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.
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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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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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