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 DAVISTo understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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