Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
ANGELA DAVISWhen 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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 never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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