Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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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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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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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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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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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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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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