History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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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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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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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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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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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