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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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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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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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 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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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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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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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