Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
ANGELA DAVISConsent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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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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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’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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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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 have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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