I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
ANGELA DAVISWhat this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I 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 live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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