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 DAVISDiscrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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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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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