I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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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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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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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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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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