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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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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