Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
ANGELA DAVISImprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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