What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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