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 DAVISHistory always seems to repeat itself.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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