I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
ANGELA DAVISFeminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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 decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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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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