Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
ANGELA DAVISTo understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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