Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
ANGELA DAVISIt’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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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 never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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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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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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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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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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