The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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