Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
ANGELA DAVISImprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social 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 think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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 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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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