Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
ANGELA DAVISPoor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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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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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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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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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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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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 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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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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