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.
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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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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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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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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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 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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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