Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
ANGELA DAVISThe 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?
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
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