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 DAVISThe 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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Feminism 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.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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