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.
ANGELA DAVISI have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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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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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Jails 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.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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