You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
ANGELA DAVISFeminism 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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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 they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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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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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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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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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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