I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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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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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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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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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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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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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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 have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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