Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
ANGELA DAVISBlack women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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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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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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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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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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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 think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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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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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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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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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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