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 DAVISRacism 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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