Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
ANGELA DAVISIt is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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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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