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.
ANGELA DAVISThe only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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