What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
ANGELA DAVISJails 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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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 think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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 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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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