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.
ANGELA DAVISWell of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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